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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:20:42 +0100 |
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Spider <spider@g.o> wrote: |
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> So my question was for the generic case of things like this, Can the |
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> binaries be made more reliable? |
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> Perhaps this sort of thing be worked around in portage-code? ( wrap a |
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> consistency check of linking before installing? demand that a system |
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> is"updated" ? ) |
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> Or should binaries have more metadata in them, perhaps a specific |
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> requirement for libraries? (sheesh, then its down to RPM again. that's |
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> bad. ) |
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Why more metadata? Can't we just run a ldd check on the binaries, check |
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that the relevant libraries are present, if not do a lookup in a |
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(to-be-created) list of library<->package mappings and add the relevant |
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packages as PDEPEND? (or yell at the user to provide that library ;) |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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