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On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:58, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> Binary packages are dirty ;-) Anyone some idea what debian does to this |
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> respect? |
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They are indeed dirty... Debian has a script that does an LDD on every |
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executable and associates the .so deps with specific packages versions |
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and add those as dependencies.. But they dont have use flags, etc... |
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There is no way around storing the exact dependencies of .so versions in |
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the packages I think... The suggestion that I saw of storing from which |
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package/version they were last seen seems the best thing to do.. So we |
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can at least give the users a hint on what to do... |
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Its better to just have portage stop with "library version of XX does |
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not match YY, you can not install this binary package, recompile |
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yourself". Even if it does reject stuff that would normally work, that's |
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probably better than accepting stuff that breaks.. |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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