Comments on: Package Dependencies

By: Andrew Jorgensen

Andrew Jorgensen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:08:29 +0000

I was aware of the various kinds of urpm* sweetness. I was not aware that Mandriva did pkgconfig provides — that is awesome.

By: Götz Waschk

Götz Waschk — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:01:28 +0000

Looks like Suse is reinventing something Mandriva has for years, urpmf can be used to search in the repositories. Also, the pkg-config deps are real in Mandriva’s packages:

# rpm -q –provides avahi-sharp
pkgconfig(avahi-sharp) = 0.6.23
pkgconfig(avahi-ui-sharp) = 0.6.23
mono(avahi-sharp) = 1.0.0.0
mono(avahi-ui-sharp) = 0.0.0.0
avahi-sharp = 0.6.23-1mdv2009.0

By: Andrew Jorgensen

Andrew Jorgensen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:02:48 +0000

Nobody ever said Debian wasn’t cool too.

By: directhex

directhex — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:51:21 +0000

So SUSE finally has apt-file, then?

jms@osc-franzibald:~$ apt-file search avahi-sharp.pc
libavahi1.0-cil: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/avahi-sharp.pc
jms@osc-franzibald:~$ apt-file search X11/SM/SMlib.h
libsm-dev: /usr/include/X11/SM/SMlib.h

By: Pascal Bleser

Pascal Bleser — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:56:23 +0000

Glad to hear that you like the webpin CLI. It’s just a pretty simple CLI frontend for the webpin webservice though, and kudos for the really hard work goes to Benjamin Weber [1] for implementing the engine+webservices+webinterface behind/on webpin [2].

[1] http://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/
[2] http://packages.opensuse-community.org/

And btw, writing a findreqprov script for rpmbuild to automatically add Provides: based on .pc files would be pretty trivial. As an experiment, I wrote one for Java that adds Provides: for Java packages contained in the packaged .jar files (using jdepend), compiled with gcj. Pretty simple to do, actually.