what about them? Of course it won't 'catch' these. Still, checking the *.so libs is a great help.
do you think that since it won't work for perl, python and ruby such tool is unneeded? -p On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 12:28, Didier Spaier <[email protected]> wrote: > > What about the non-binary deps (perl, python and ruby...)? > > Cheers, > Didier > > Le 01/03/2024 à 11:19, Petar Petrov a écrit : > > 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 > > <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
