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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:53:35
Message-Id: 20040205205329.592933c9.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP by Paul de Vrieze
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2 On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:34:53 +0100
3 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
4
5 > On Thursday 05 February 2004 19:45, Spider wrote:
6 > >
7 > > But in a case like this it isnt a SLOT. All openssl builds have
8 > > SLOT="0", they just provide diffrent library versions (0.9.6 and
9 > > 0.9.7) which cause this breakage. Same goes against other such
10 > > interesting"known to break" things. (libpng was another pretty
11 > > example. )
12 >
13 > In that case we might use something like LIBRARYVERSION/LIBVER (we
14 > might even by default calculate it from the soname of the first
15 > library found)
16 >
17
18 Could work, but isn't this a clumsier version of :
19 track ldd of foopack.
20 resolve all .so files
21 store both lists, and if the .so aren't there, spit out the "last seen
22 as "<package>" as a hint and refuse to install?
23
24
25 (still dirty.. but better than what RPM does ;)
26
27 //Spider
28
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Re: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>