RPM -- plans, goals, etc. [LWN.net]

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Posted Dec 21, 2006 13:42 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: RPM -- plans, goals, etc. by seyman
Parent article: RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

This only seems to be an issue because of the lack of a standardised method for determining the proper dependencies that a package should end up with. In Debian, if I was packaging a program that links against libmysqlclient.so.15, during the package build process I would use the dpkg-shlibdeps program which basically does this:

cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs | awk '$1 == "libmysqlclient" && $2 == "15" {print $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9}'. (Does anyone know a better way to tell awk to 'print the rest of the line', BTW?)

The output is libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2), which I would use directly in the package's Depends field.

Here's a more typical example:

$ dpkg-shlibdeps -O /usr/bin/mysql shlibs:Depends=libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12), libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5), libreadline5 (>= 5.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)

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