Re: [gentoo-dev] revdep-rebuild

[Paul Varner]

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 07:20 -0700, Stefan Jones wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 23:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > i've already contacted fuzzray about utilizing two packages solar put together
> > (and can be found in portage already):
> > pax-utils: scanelf
> > portage-utils: qfile
>
> Thanks for the ideas.
>
> I had a quick look at the programs;
>
> qfile: This would be useful in cleaning up the the last part of finding
> which package the file belongs to. But that part is already fairly quick
> compared to the rest.
>
> scanelf:
>
> >From what I can see scanelf can print what libraries a file needs but it
> cannot say if the libraries are present.  For example:
>
> /usr/bin/scanelf /bin/ls -n
>  TYPE   NEEDED FILE
> ET_EXEC librt.so.1,libncurses.so.5,libc.so.6 /bin/ls
>
> So you would need to keep a list of all libraries to check against.
> Thus I prefer using:
> LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/ls
>
> But you could use "ldconfig -p" to gain a list of all the libraries, put
> them in a hash table and then use scanelf.

All of this is on my todo list for the next major revision of
revdep-rebuild.

The one bug that I haven't found an easy, quick, reliable method to fix
is Bug 63643 (revdep-rebuild does not rebuild libraries with unresolved
symbols). If anyone has suggestions for that one, I would highly
appreciate it.

Regards,
Paul
-- 
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list