[Slackbuilds-users] tracking down SBo "dependencies"

[Petar Petrov]

revdep checks for broken *.so, so it would not matter whether your
deps were optional or not. People running -current, who install stuff
from SBo, would greatly benefit from such a tool.

regards,

-p


On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 12:16, Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users
<slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>
> the problem is the optional dependencies. how does a tool know which
> options you like.
> Only when such a tool which has your preferred optional deps recorded
> exists, can there
> be a way to reverse dep without missing out bits.
> regards, Tim
>
> On 01/03/2024 09:38, Petar Petrov wrote:
> > there were several discussions about Slackware needing a tool such as
> > revdep, to check for issues like this. Search LQ, however, I did not
> > find a good solution that just works. I got advice to make my own
> > tool, as well as, statements how people use their own "home made"
> > tools for this.
> >
> > -p
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 18:12, Jim <zsd+slackbuilds at jdvb.ca> wrote:
> >> I recently upgraded the SBo dav1d, which upgraded the library from
> >> libdav1d.so.6 to libdav1d.so.7.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, a couple of other SBo packages (libheif and vlc) had
> >> references to (specifically) libdav1d.so.6, which caused them to whine a
> >> bit.
> >>
> >> It was easy enough to recompile libheif and vlc after I found the problem,
> >> but this got me wondering...
> >>
> >> Does anyone have an easy way of tracking down this sort of "breakage" which
> >> might happen when upgrading an SBo package?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>                                  Jim
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