pkg_libchk (was Re: gvfs on FreeBSD 10 fails to build)

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Nov 26 18:15:33 UTC 2013


On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> Possibly hijacking the thread, but isn't it time that pkg_libchk was made a
> part of the base system? It comes up over and over as a tool to simplify
> dealing with dealing with shareable library version bumps and even more
> important for dealing with the problem seen here. It's a fairly simple,
> well written, maintainable shell script, so will run with no dependencies.
> I can't think of any reason not to include it in the base system.
>
> Checking for issues with shareable libraries is an obvious requirement for
> maintaining a system and doing so without a tool like pkg_libchk is
> unnecessarily tedious and painful.

Maybe integrating it with pkg rather than the base system.  At least for 
me, it's not a problem with the base.


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