Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 16:45:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: James Colannino <james@colannino.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking for broken packages (as in linking) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111051643440.28513@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CADGWnjXRNq2SA4V4NH=OU0jfYPHg4p%2B8QVsHsm4mt1%2BURAmpOA@mail.gmail.com> References: <4EB4D76A.2050009@colannino.org> <CADGWnjXRNq2SA4V4NH=OU0jfYPHg4p%2B8QVsHsm4mt1%2BURAmpOA@mail.gmail.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --14dae9399c998798ef04b1020901 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111051643442.28513@wonkity.com> On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:27 AM, James Colannino <james@colannino.org> wrote: >> No, I don't mean checking for broken ports :-P In fact, when I Google >> around for the answer to my question, that's all I can find, which is why I >> bring my question to the mailing list instead :) Maybe "broken ports" or >> "broken packages" isn't the right term (what should I be searching for >> instead?) >> >> What I want to know is, are there tools that will check the ports I've >> installed and tell me if any of my packages are linked against libraries >> that are no longer there? I'm paranoid that at some point, while I'm >> building and installing updates, I'm going to break something. > > I'm using the following script (attached). There's also pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts. --14dae9399c998798ef04b1020901--
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