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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:00:42
Message-Id: 200402052100.37742.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Thursday 05 February 2004 20:58, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > On Thursday 05 February 2004 20:53, Spider wrote:
3 > > Could work, but isn't this a clumsier version of :
4 > > track ldd of foopack.
5 > > resolve all .so files
6 > > store both lists, and if the .so aren't there, spit out the "last seen
7 > > as "<package>" as a hint and refuse to install?
8 >
9 > This would work at packaging time, not at install time. Basically what we
10 > need is to identify incompatible library changes (besides never installing
11 > with an older version than build with) some way. We could use a LIBVER
12 > variable for that. It would be similar in function as SLOT, but it would
13 > not say anything about ability to coexist. It just says something about
14 > library conflicts.
15 >
16 > > (still dirty.. but better than what RPM does ;)
17
18 My "hack" does something similar as rpm does when packaging up (they record
19 all library versions, but forget where to get them)
20
21 Paul
22
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24 Paul de Vrieze
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