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Re: fakeroot: log open() calls?



On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 01:25:39PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:09:52AM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> 
> > The last command of the pipe is dpkg -l , which produces the human readable
> > output you see in this example. It should be substituted with some command to
> > grep away essential packages and pack the rest in the new format for the
> > Source-dependecies field.
> 
> You can't automatically know if you need a versioned depends or not and
> if the depends should be architecture-conditioned or not.  Therefore
> you can't automatically write the fields, you need to do it by hand.
> But this tool is useful for seeing what might be needed ;-)

Yes, it shows which "needed" packages and which versions are installed
on the machine you build. Then you need some mechanism like *.shlibs to
mark versions that had a different behaviour.
Brobably this information is known better by the maintainer of the
package your source depends, more than by you.

fab
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