Re: customizing depends

[Chris Gray <cgray@tribsoft.com>]

>>>>> Junichi Uekawa writes:

    ju> In Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:06:23 -0500 Chris Gray <cgray@tribsoft.com> cum veritate scripsit :
    >>> What I would like to do is control the behaviour of
    >>> dpkg-shlibdeps wrt one library.  In particular, I would like
    >>> it to use lapack instead of atlas2 because there is about a 5
    >>> Mb difference between the two packages and I only need
    >>> liblapack.
    >>> 
    >>> Unfortunately, the man page doesn't really make it clear how
    >>> to do this.  I tried making a debian/shlibs.local file, but
    >>> that didn't seem to make much difference.

    ju> This information is gained from /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs
    ju> So, probably you can find lapack.shlibs and atlas2.shlibs
    ju> there.

    ju> The best way I think is to remove atlas2 from the build
    ju> machine so that it doesn't appear on your dependency list. Add
    ju> atlas2 to Build-Conflicts, and add lapack to Bulid-Depends:.

Actually, it doesn't have to be this complicated.  I had just made my
debian/shlibs.local file with the wrong soname.  After looking at
atlas2.shlibs, I was able to correct it.  Just for future reference,
the following works:

liblapack 2      lapack
^         ^      ^
library   soname package to Depend: on

if it's in debian/shlibs.local

-- 
Chris