[gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies
Hi, I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. The devmanual seems to suggest that it's a bad thing for packages to explicitly depend on packages in the system set, while many packages in the tree do indeed explicitly depend upon packages such as zlib and ncurses. Any thoughts to as how far I should go with filing bugs regarding this issue? Best regards, Michael
Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies
On Monday, August 22, 2011 15:21:23 Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. The devmanual seems to suggest that it's a bad thing for packages to explicitly depend on packages in the system set, while many packages in the tree do indeed explicitly depend upon packages such as zlib and ncurses. file bugs for missing zlib/ncurses deps. if there are other packages you're concerned with, ask now and we'll tell you. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies
On 8/22/11 12:21 PM, Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. It would be great to integrate this into portage and make it a part of the developer profile. This would just help prevent future breakages. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies
On Tuesday 23 of August 2011 18:54:04 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 8/22/11 12:21 PM, Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. It would be great to integrate this into portage and make it a part of the developer profile. This would just help prevent future breakages. It seems there are a couple of such home-grown solutions already. dberkholz used to have on in his dev webspace[1], we have one[2] in kde overlay... 1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/scripts/ (linking_libs, included_headers) 2. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=tree;f=Documentation/maintainers;hb=master (dynlink_scanner + try_dlopen.c) -- regards MM signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-dev] Implicit system dependencies
On 19:08 Tue 23 Aug , Maciej Mrozowski wrote: On Tuesday 23 of August 2011 18:54:04 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 8/22/11 12:21 PM, Michael wrote: I wrote a script to search for discrepancies between linked libraries and what's defined in (R)DEPEND, with the intention of improving QA for minimal package installs. It would be great to integrate this into portage and make it a part of the developer profile. This would just help prevent future breakages. It seems there are a couple of such home-grown solutions already. dberkholz used to have on in his dev webspace[1], we have one[2] in kde overlay... 1. http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/scripts/ (linking_libs, included_headers) 2. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=tree;f=Documentation/maintainers;hb=master (dynlink_scanner + try_dlopen.c) Also we've got a couple of really cool GSoC projects along these lines. One is called autodep [1, 2], and it integrates into portage to let you know if you're missing deps or specified too many deps. The other one is an ebuild generator [3, 4] that works for autotools but not a lot else at this point. 1. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_7491f6b5bffdccaedc939beb6e1c4f0d.xml 2. http://dev.gentoo.org/~neurogeek/guidexml/ (temporary homepage) 3. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_e29529cb6f3dfc762f4f7e313b106deb.xml 4. http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~darkdefender/ebuildgenerator -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com pgp441wcSLJ6h.pgp Description: PGP signature
