[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] How the use of "provides" can damage the dependency tree

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Sonntag 02 August 2009 22:16:06 schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>   
>> Allan McRae wrote:
>>     
>>> Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Am Sonntag 02 August 2009 11:26:51 schrieb Roman Kyrylych:
>>>>         
>>>>> Okay, then how we currently check that subversion needs
>>>>> to be rebuilt on db or heimdal soname bump?
>>>>>           
>>>> That's where the link database would help a lot.
>>>>         
>>> Or the rebuild script I have posted which scans all the packages in
>>> the repos in a few minutes.
>>>       
>> Or visit this url to check the deps of the desired pkg
>> http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/i686/core/heimdal-1.2.1-5
>> http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/x86_64/core/openssl-0.9.8k-4
>> etc, etc.
>>
>> http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/out/
>>
>> That I update it regulary, 1-3 times per week, depending of amount of
>> pkgs that are updated in repos.
>>     
>
> Do you think your script could use archives created by this one: 
> http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/createLinkLists.txt
>
> It creates a simple raw format to work with and is incremental and quite fast. 
> One could apply your changes to the getlinks() function and maybe one could 
> run the links file through sort -u. The goal would be to have such archives on 
> the mirror and analyse its data by tools like yours.
>
>   
Hi Pierre,

Yes, but the problem is that with my scripts I do more tasks with the
extracted info from ELFs. for now, the dt_needed, dt_soname and dt_rpath
are only used.
The deps are first located with sonames and not based diretly on
filenames. So I can know what libs don't have sonames for example, or if
new lib have soname but not the old (example of this libs from boost).


PS: Sorry for the delay, I started working back in school again after
the holidays :)

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