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Dan Armak wrote: [Sun Oct 14 2001, 6:47:59PM EDT] |
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> Another item: an automated dependency checker. |
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> It would build a file->package database from /var/db/pkg and update it |
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> whenever a request for a non-registered file is made. |
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This is done, although not well documented: |
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gentoo-src/portage/bin/pdb |
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> It would run ldd on all dynamic exes in CONTENTS of a requested package, find |
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> which packages the linked libraries were from and list the packages. |
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This isn't hard -- I wrote a little perl script to do this, but lost it |
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in my reiserfs fiasco. I will try to write it again -- maybe in python |
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this time. |
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> With an interface to portage.py, it could caculate the DEPEND of the ebuild |
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> and list missed deps. |
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It could assist it calculating the DEPEND, but there's no good way for |
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it to figure out version numbers, I think. It could list missing deps, |
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and the ebuild author would have to make judgement calls about which |
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version to require. |
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> Also, maybe this Subterfuge can make a list of programs called by the ebuild |
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> during emerge (make, gcc, ld, perl, whatever) and look those up too. |
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Hm! Interesting idea. We've been discussing having emerge do everything |
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accept the merge itself as a non-root user to prevent 'make install' |
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accidents. But if subterfuge could help with this step, perhaps it |
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would be a better solution. |
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--Chouser |
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