I just uploaded a beta-version of dpkg-scanlibs to http://people.debian.org/~wakkerma/ . This is the python rewrite of dpkg-shlibdeps and will replace it once I'm sure it works properly.
Besides the fact that this code is actually commented and readable, the major changes in functionality are: * properly checks for conflicting libraries. This fixed the libc5/libc6 problems we had, as well as similar problems for all other libraries. This should also catch stupid linking problems. * no more ldd: since we have proper logic for checking conflicting libraries we no longer need ldd to figure it out for us. This also means that things should work fine on the HURD now, as well as OpenBSD and HP-UX. * Internally caches all its data, which should make it a lot faster if you scan more binaries in one run. * Will try to use dlocate instead of dpkg -S for extra speedups * Will complain if a package contains a library that is used but does not have a shlibs file for it. This already found a bug: [tornado;~/sources/work/dpkg2/scripts]-70> ./dpkg-scanlibs.py /usr/bin/top Package procps contains libproc.so.2.0.7 but has no shlibs entry for it * Scans debian/* to hunt for package containing libraries which can be used as well. Since we don't use ldd anymore you will no longer need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use those libraries. The current version hasn't been properly tested yet; I would appreciate feedback on problems it has. Please don't complain about nasty-looking errors from the script, I haven't put in all the exception handlers to turn those into user-friendly messages. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
