Followup to FESCO meeting: firefox dependancy tracking.

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Fri Jan 5 12:44:39 UTC 2007


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> As per the FESCO meeting item list, and irc discussion, here is my
> humble attempt to identify via repoquery what packages are currently
> prone to library dependancy breakage without being noticed by the
> automated scripts which just look for rpm autogenerated library
> dependancies.
> 
> these are packages which have a requirement on a library from firefox,
> but do not explicitly require firefox or gecko-libs:
> 
> epiphany-extensions-0:2.16.1-1.i386
> gnome-chemistry-utils-mozplugin-0:0.6.3-4.fc6.i386
> openvrml-gtkplug-0:0.16.3-1.fc6.i386
> openvrml-mozilla-plugin-0:0.16.3-1.fc6.i386
> 
> If you just look at packages which do not use a versioned firefox dep
> you also get:
> 
> devhelp-0:0.12-9.fc6.i386
> epiphany-0:2.16.2-1.fc6.i386
> galeon-0:2.0.3-4.fc6.1.i386

galeon uses a versioned dependency on gecko-libs. From the spec file:

Requires: gecko-libs = %{gecko_ver}
BuildRequires:  gecko-devel = %{gecko_ver}

Epiphany does this as well.




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