Re: [vps-mail] vunlink

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:59:19PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Part of the UTF8 management in the new version of libxml2 seems to break
> some of the software we have installed on a VPS2, including, BTW, GD.

Bummer. What is GD doing with libxml2?

> I therefore need to make sure Verio no longer updates that library, and I
> believe the process to use is vunlink.

Verio is keeping that library up to date (as much as possible). We
found severe problems with it for XML::LibXSLT and XML::LibXML with
recent versions but I think it should be up to date now. It is used
by the CPX control panel, for one thing.

> vunlink *what* ?

You could:

    pkg_info -L libxml2-2.6.16 | egrep '^/' | xargs vunlink

or something like that.

> Simply doing a pkg_delete is likely to break other things, so it means
> recompiling an older version and installing it on top of what's there now.

I think unlinking it will have the same effects as a pkg_delete--
probably lots of stuff depends on it, so I wouldn't recommend it.

If the current version is unsatisfactory, you can always pkg_add -f a
new one or build from ports and do a forced upgrade.

Scott
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