On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:45:47PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:39:16PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > I have just discovered (via a bug report) that dict and dictd > > depend on netbase. (dict and dictd communicate with each other using > > the TCP/IP protocol.) Since dictd has been in debian for over four > > years without declaring the dependency, this indicates that netbase is > > almost universally installed! :-) > > > Is there any tool, comparable to dpkg-shlibs, to determine > > non-library dependencies? > > How would you propose to detect such a dependency? Library dependencies > are easily detected; they're listed in a definitive location in every > ELF binary, and all libraries listed there are definitely dependencies > because the binary won't run without them. Dependencies on other > programs, OTOH, can only be identified using heuristics, or by simply > knowing your package very well: any tool that (e.g.) tries to grep > through the package sources to find out what other programs it > references will turn up lots of false positives on packages that *can* > use particular binaries if present, but don't really depend on those > external binaries.
Well, you could try running the program through strace, and then look at all the opened files (with the proper strace flag) and then run dpkg -S on them. Same as for autodetecting build depends. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
