2008/2/1, Kevin Monceaux
Fellow Arch Enthusiasts,
I noticed a problem with the ruby-python package in aur/community and added a comment to it. But, then I started wondering if I should have have flagged it as out of date or filed a bug instead. So, I thought I'd ask for future reference.
The package isn't exactly out of date. It's built against the current version of the available sources according to the project's web site, although the sources don't appear to have been updated since 2005. The postgres.so library file included in the ruby-postgres binary package is linked against libpq.so.4. The current postgresql-libs package contains libpq.so.5, so the package just needs to be rebuilt to link against the current libs. Also, I got an error trying to download the source tarball from the source URL in the PKGBUILD file. The source tarball is available via the package's main website.
Report a bugreport in "Community Packages" project on our bugtracker.
Does Arch have a utility similar to Gentoo's revdep-rebuild utility that scans all the libraries/binaries on the system for missing dependencies?
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=devtools.git;a=blob_plain;f=lddd -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)