[aur-general] Easy way to find out package dependencies

[Neer Sighted]

Actually, remy just applied a patch to fix pyalpm compilation, and you
can use this PKGBUILD to get it working with pacman-git:

https://github.com/neersighted/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/pyalpm-pacman41-git/PKGBUILD

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013, at 03:01 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 11:50:57PM +0100, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> > On 02/03/2013 23:46, Dave Reisner wrote:
> > >On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 11:35:40PM +0100, oliver wrote:
> > >>Hello,
> > >>
> > >>is there an easy way to find out, which package dependencies
> > >>a package has?
> > >>
> > >>Say, i want to write the PKGBUILD for a package,
> > >>and the compilation on my system (.7configure/cmake and make)
> > >>does work without problems.
> > >>
> > >>Then I don't get a message about missing libraries.
> > >>So, it's easy to compile the stuff, but needs some
> > >>effort to find out the dependencies.
> > >>
> > >>Possibly with ldd the linked stuff can be found out,
> > >>but the library names not necessarily are the same as
> > >>the names of the package that provide these libraries.
> > >>
> > >>So, it may need some effort to find out the packages.
> > >>
> > >>Is there an easy way to find out the package names?
> > >>
> > >>Maybe someone already has written a script that
> > >>reverse-lookups the package names from ldd-output?
> > >>
> > >>Any ideas on that?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Ciao,
> > >>   Oliver
> > >
> > >This is probably what you're looking for:
> > >
> > >https://github.com/falconindy/bin-scripts/blob/master/elf2pkgs
> > >
> > >You can get a concise list by running this over the pkg/ directory
> > >after
> > >building:
> > >
> > >  find pkg/ -type f -executable -exec elf2pkgs {} + 2>/dev/null
> > >
> > >d
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be easier to just use namcap, or am I missing something?
> 
> Probably. I run pacman from git, so namcap doesn't work for me.
> 


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