Hi! I am Alexander Bersenev, I was participating in GSoC this year. I want to present you the tool I've developed during this program. I hope that you'll find it useful.
The purpose of my project is to help ebuild developers to compose accurate dependency list for a package. The tool has many features in order to do it, most of them listed on the documentation site: http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~bay/autodep/ The killer-feature is an emulating the file system without non-dependency packages installed. I call it dependency checking or strict emerging. If program builds successfully in this environment then check is passed. If no - check is failed and user likely will be having a bad experience while trying to build this package if he hasn't some packages installed. It works fine, I've reported a few dozens of bugs about missing dependencies here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=autodep. How to install and use it: 1) add neurogeek overlay in your overlay list 2) emerge autodep 3) use autodep and emerge_strict commands. I want to tell you more about emerge_strict command. This is an emerge command but with strict dependency checking. I've modified a portage and add this feature into it. Actually, after "emerge autodep" you will have two versions of portage: one is from your system(emerge) and one is from modified portage(emerge_strict). !!!ATTENTION!!! I modified a last available portage version from git. It is about Portage 2.2.0_alpha50. The you running portage 2.1.x.x it theoretically can be unsafe to use them both. I used it together for about a month and not found any problems, but, anyway, be careful. !!!ATTENTION!!! Here is an example of emerge_strict dev-libs/nss output: https://381591.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=285369 Missing dependency is founded here: sdb.c:58:21: fatal error: sqlite3.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. .... [NOT IN DEPS] dev-db/sqlite-3.7.7.1 : [u'compile'] /usr/include/sqlite3.h blocked .... I've set up a tinderbox to catch missing dependencies. And it works right now. Also, I recently installed desktop gentoo linux on my new notebook using only emerge_strict. It is also works. Although GSoC is over, I want to support this tool in further. I will be appreciate for any feedback. Best, Alexander Bersenev
