Subject: QA question wrg. GRP
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2004-02-05 01:27:48 GMT (5 years, 21 weeks, 4 days, 14 hours and 29 minutes ago)
okay, heres a juicy little thing with packages that depend (RDEPEND too) on openssl. If an old system (openssl 0.9.6) installs said packages, we have a working satisfied openssl install. However, this will fail miserably once installed, since the packages themselves actually link to libssl.so.0.9.7 and libcrypto.so.0.9.7. So, is there any way to make this behaviour work "better" with Gentoo? The way that strikes me is to do it like RPM does, list library links and depend on those files specifically. "foo won't install because it depends on /usr/lib/libssl.so.7 which is not present" However, this is bad and broken behaviour as we just get one headache for another ( what package supplies -that- .so file then? which of theese 6000 packages is it I haven't installed? and with what USE flag combination? ) so... How can this sort of thing be dealt with? //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end