Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Whoops, forgot to send on list]
>
> On 15/01/2013 15:48, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> To create the shlibs dependency, I think dpkg-shlibdeps is reading
>> files in /var/lib/dpkg/info. I can't find any "2.7" associated with
>> libc6-amd in there.
>>
>> And, if libc6-amd is really the i386 version of the C library supplied
>> on mutiarch systems, I don't really understand why the package is
>> trying to depend on it at all.
>
> I believe that dpkg-shlibdeps checks in these places:
> - /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs
> - /etc/dpkg/shlibs.{default,override}
>
> Could you grep libc6-amd64 in these places? That should provide a hint as to
> where this dependency is coming from.
>
Thanks for the advice. I don't see anything in there.
pauljohn@pjlap-124:dpkg$ pwd
/etc/dpkg
pauljohn@pjlap-124:dpkg$ grep -r libc *
pauljohn@pjlap-124:dpkg$
Those files are empty
pauljohn@pjlap-124:dpkg$ cat shlibs.default
# dpkg shlibs defaults file
#
# This file contains shlibs entries that are used as a last resort when
# no matching entries are found elsewhere. For more information see the
# dpkg-shlibdeps(1) manual page.
#
# <library name> <version/soname> <dependencies>
pauljohn@pjlap-124:dpkg$ cat shlibs.override
# dpkg shlibs override file
#
# Entries in this file will override all others, only use if you
# are really sure that is what you want!
#
# For more information see the dpkg-shlibdeps(1) manual page.
#
# <library name> <version/soname> <dependencies>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Loong Jin
>
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