On 22:09 Wed 20 Aug     , Lucian Poston wrote:
> Last week's work was interesting.  As mentioned in the last report, I
> significantly modified LinkageMap to utilize path's inodes rather
> os.path.realpath for path comparisons -- basically, reducing the
> amount of filesystem access.  It turned out to improve its efficiency,
> which in turn improved the efficiency of MisingLibraryConsumerSet as
> it relies on LinkageMap.listBrokenBinaries.

I just encountered a problem recently and wondered whether your work 
might help it at all. The situation is uninstalling a library that 
system packages link against. The problem I hit involves 
sys-apps/shadow[USE=audit] and sys-process/audit, which I just hit on my 
own system, breaking /bin/login.

It seems like this could become part of the linkage map and thus give 
the user a warning, if it's not already -- I haven't been following this 
incredibly closely.

What do you think?

> For future endeavors, I will explore adding a new entry into
> /var/db/pkg to catalog libtool libraries (similar in nature to
> NEEDED.ELF.2).  Currently, the contents of all packages are searched
> in order to find libtool libraries, so having them available in the
> vdb_path will speed things up.

Ick, libtool libraries are the worst.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com