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This thread keeps going and going and it's a subject thats already been |
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covered... So I'll just Re you here. |
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Search the archives here for RRDEPEND, LDEPEND |
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As soon as I can figure out a way in python to do fast lookups of libs |
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it will be integrated. I can do it really really fast in c but |
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I don't think everybody here is keen on installing the portage-utils. |
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-peace |
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On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:13 -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> There is any provision for binary dependency on Gentoo/Portage? The |
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> way it works now is quite messy with things like revdep-rebuild. |
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> I have an idea to "solve" this problem: after software is build, you |
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> check which files it links (ldd binaries libraries) and check the used |
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> against installed packages. If a library is not provided by an |
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> installed package we could have a policy to inform user or just abort |
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> installation. |
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> Also, if we implement these dependencies in rpm-generator, we could |
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> just generate RPM packages and install it in the RPM-DB and let it |
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> handle these kind of things. |
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> With these in place emerge would handle the build stage (where it |
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> excels), but rpm would handle the binary installation and dependencies |
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> (where it excels). |
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> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri |
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