a script to find broken packages before they break you!

Jeffrey Ratcliffe jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 21:44:53 CEST 2009


2009/7/27 Previdi Roberto <previdi.roberto at gmail.com>:
> hello list. I wrote this little script taking inspiration from the powerful
> gentoo command "revdep-rebuild". It scans all the binary files in /usr/bin
> and shows the broken ones (the ones linking non existent library)

Nice work!

Presumably it only catches those that binaries are directly dependent
on. If there are any that only other libraries are dependent upon,
they won't be caught.

Regards

Jeff



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