Re: [gentoo-soc] Auto dependency builder progress report. Week 7.

["Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)" <neurogeek@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 16:29 Fri 15 Jul     , Александр Берсенев wrote:
>> 2011/7/15 Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>:
>> > For DEPEND rather than RDEPEND ones, we'll want to make sure they're
>> > definitely listed in dependencies of the ebuild being used, rather
>> > than any level.
>>
>> The main drawback of hooklib approach is an inability to track what
>> files have been loaded while exec call(runtime libraries). Most
>> RDEPENDS are naturally filtered here. Fusefs approach logs all file
>> system events.
>>
>> This is a difficult problem to distinguish RDEPENDS from DEPENDS. If I
>> look on files accessed I can say if the dependency is runtime, but I
>> haven't general strategy. I should watch more building logs of various
>> packages to find a way.
>
> You might be able to use src_test for this. If a package is accessed in
> src_test as well as src_configure/src_compile, it's RDEPEND. Clearly
> this won't work when src_test isn't defined, but it's a start.
>
RDEPEND will be tricky to get right, but I like this approach, could
work for those packages with tests.
We are going to discuss an approach for this and for the filtering of
@system, as we need to find a way to get rid of second-hand deps.

> --
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
> Donnie Berkholz
> Admin, Summer of Code
> Gentoo Linux and X.Org
> Blog: http://dberkholz.com
>
>



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Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
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