[arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

[Jason Chu]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:47:11AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> Jason,
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jason Chu wrote:
>
>> Ok, after building the PKGBUILD and running namcap on it, I got these
>> messages:
>>
>> [jchu at wingnut a]$ namcap c3270-3.3.7p1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
>> c3270      W: Dependency included but already satisfied (ncurses)
>> c3270      W: Dependency included but already satisfied (readline)
>
> On my box, when I run namcap on the package built from the PKGBUILD I sent 
> you, I get:
>
> c3270      W: Dependency included and not needed (ncurses)
> c3270      W: Dependency included and not needed (openssl)
> c3270      W: Dependency included and not needed (readline)
>
> And, if I remove all the dependencies, it doesn't report any missing 
> dependencies.  It sounds like at the very least it should report openssl as 
> a missing dependency if it's removed.  Is there perhaps something I'm 
> missing on my system?  It's a fresh install, installed last Friday, from 
> the current ISO and all recent updates have been applied via yaourt.

What does readelf -d /usr/bin/c3270 tell you?  Namcap doesn't actually use
ldd, it uses something faster and more accurate.

Jason
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