Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:16:17 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "Guillaume R." <raimondeau@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some questions about ports system Message-ID: <20051126101617.GA80047@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <7ab0fd580511260129g6e87de90i@mail.gmail.com> References: <7ab0fd580511260129g6e87de90i@mail.gmail.com>
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--mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:29:07AM +0100, Guillaume R. wrote: > Hi > At the end of a portsclean -LPPDDC I got this: > ** Clean out /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg manually on occasions. > ** Try using libchk(1) (sysutils/libchk) to find out unreferenced librari= es. > I'm asking thus some questions, the one is how could I clean manually > the /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg directory=20 The directory /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg is where portsclean puts old and orphaned libraries. If the libraries are no longer used, you can remove the= m. > and the second is about the > nature of libchk. I got no man page on this soft and it doesn't seem > to be installed on my box.=20 It's in the ports system. /usr/ports/sysutils/libchk > Before running it I wish to know what is it? Could someone explain me > what this software is and figure out is utility for a system? Read /usr/ports/sysutils/libchk/pkg-descr > Finally I got a question about pkgdb, when I run it with the F options > I often have questions to which I have to answer thx to yes or no. I > never know what I must choose. I read the man page of pkgdb but it's > not clear in my mind could someone explain me how this soft works? Basically, what it does when it finds a missing or outdated dependancy, is search for packages that have a name that looks like the dependancy it's looking for. It then asks you if you think it's guess is correct. Try 'pkgdb -aF' that will fix anything that can be fixed securely, and leaves the rest. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDiDXxEnfvsMMhpyURAmmNAJ9rb2BlKXQjeKqxqjYezGfT1ham6QCeIg+o afsOgaHZmaVoqdbDTUUPlw8= =CCFt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--
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