How do I check for breakages after updating?

mariourk

mariourk

I just updated a bunch of outdated ports by simply running portupgrade -a. This seemed to work fine. As far as I could see in /usr/ports/UPDATING, none of the outdated packages needed special attention. But how do I check if there are any breakages that require certain packages to be recompiled?

For example, under Gentoo I used revdep-rebuild for this.
 
There's also a shortcut of sorts ... to part of the process(es).
Code: 
ldd /usr/local/bin/xcalc # for example
the shortcut...
killall -HUP Xorg # one is now out of X
xcalc
I've recompiled and recompiled, but the ldd still fails.
(some library not found).
Running a X-library package out of X, more often than not will hint whether it is the package, or just a dependency of the package/port, that needs updating.
 
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