This one time, at band camp, Jaime Robles said: > Hello. Hello, > I am doing my NM process and i have a question that i still don't know > how to answer properly O:-) > > It is about finding dependencies. How can i find the dependencies for > a package? I know that there is a "hack" to find them but... what > about using chroots? I supose that if you are in a chroot enviroment > created with debotstrap you can try&guess the dependencies for a > package but... is it necesary a guess and error process to do it? Is > there another way? I'm not sure if you mean Depends: or Build-Depends: here - I'm going to assume Depends: here. Running objdump on your binaries is a always a good start - that's what shlibdeps uses to get it's list. Then you'll need to use some sense for things that are perhaps not picked up this way - if it's an emacs helper mode it should depend on emacs, if it's a cgi-bin script it should probably depend/recommend httpd, and so forth. After you get a list of libraries, you can use dpkg -S or apt-file to find out what package they're in. If you mean Build-Depends:, there's a pretty decent script in the NM guide, but you'll need to trim the packages that are Build-Essential out of it. > If i build a package using pbuilder from the dsc file... are the > dependencies guessed and checked? Or the dependencies are used from > what you wrote in the debian/control file? Used from the control file for Build-Depends, filled in by shlibdeps for Depends. HTH, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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