pkg_libchk: a missing library is not detected

Dominic Fandrey kamikaze at bsdforen.de
Wed Jun 17 12:00:10 UTC 2009


Boris Samorodov wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> writes:
> 
>>> Luck. The app linking to the old library will have a dependency on the old 
>>> version. pkg_add will find the origin, issue a warning about "app-1.0 needing 
>>> lib-0.1 but lib-0.2 is installed" and proceed. app will not start, because of 
>>> the missing library.
>> I've never had this case. I've got the impression that pointyhead rebuilds all
>> dependencies.
> 
> Let me remind you the case with my original question:
> 1. Graphics/eog was broken (as you said) by indirect dependency.
> 2. Pkg_libchk didn't catch the case.
> 
> Did it happen by design?
> 
> 
> WBR

Are you certain that this was a direct dependency? Maybe just a dependency
of graphics/eog was broken.


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