* [gentoo-project] Bug #458866: agenda item
@ 2013-08-28 19:43 99% Anthony G. Basile
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From: Anthony G. Basile @ 2013-08-28 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi Ulrich,
I'd like to add bug #458866 to the agenda for the next meeting. The
central issue is best summarized in Zac's comment 18: we should expose
/var/db/pkg information to tools that need package info. In this case,
we need NEEDED.ELF.2 info to traverse a linkage graph through the
installed packages. While such a graph can be regenerated "on the fly"
it is time consuming and the information can be done once by portage at
emerge time.
It is not necessary to expose NEEDED.ELF.2 per se, as long as there is
some abstract interface for accessing NEEDED.ELF.2 info (and in the
future possibly more). Use cases include: 1) in the case of this bug,
revdep-pax from sys-apps/elfix which migrates pax markings from
libraries to the executables that link against them, 2) emerge
@preserved-rebuild. It is not hard to imagine other cases where one
needs to traverse a linkage graph.
Thanks.
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