RFC: Soname in rpm name
Jeff Pitman
symbiont at berlios.de
Mon Jan 24 13:17:26 UTC 2005
On Monday 24 January 2005 21:06, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Well if it can be easily solved how come we still have this problem
> > ? There are several packages that use the soname approach in FC and
> > they are the ones that are a PITA to cleanup now and then
>
> I did not know, is it possible to have a tool find the rpms that no
> rpms depend on, and ask to remove them ? For this task, Debian has
> something called deborphan (which might do more than that) and
> Mandrake has "urpm-find-leaves" IIRC. Maybe that could be a start.
It'll be slow to materialize. Key factor is that this is usually a
result of:
1. Using third party repositories.
2. Doing dist upgrades.
Neither of which finds amicable or fruitful discussion. Bad-blood
carryover from earlier days.
--
-jeff
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