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sprintf

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From: /bin

Registered: 2005-07-21

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where would i find the docs for pkg creation

i have created 3 packages and a few more to be built. however, the first 3 have been successfuly built and installed on my desktop but i still need some info on how to be through with determining static and dynamic dependencies. just used ldd for now, r there any tools to determine static libs?

can anyone point me in the right direction please?

also theses packages are not already in the pacman db so i could contribute to the db

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Dusty

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Re: where would i find the docs for pkg creation

namcap is a useful tool for testing PKGBUILDs and packages. Take a look at the wiki for some documents on packaging (look for ABS and makepkg)

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elasticdog

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Registered: 2005-05-02

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Re: where would i find the docs for pkg creation

I'm curious about accurately finding dependencies too.  If I'm not mistaken, namcap creates its dependency data from using ldd, so that's no different than what sprintf is doing now.  Is that wrong?

Dusty

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Re: where would i find the docs for pkg creation

I believe namcap uses some other tools and sanity checks. The best way to find deps is thorough testing and reading documentation.

Before Sarah31 says it, namcap is a nice tool but you can't rely on it.

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sarah31

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Re: where would i find the docs for pkg creation

Some people rely too much on tools such as namcap to tell them dependecies. If you know what you are packaging well you should know the dependencies and what is needed and just what isn't nned in your dependency list.

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sprintf

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Registered: 2005-07-21

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Re: where would i find the docs for pkg creation

well, sure testing and going through the pack's docs is the best was but how does T2 determine package dependencies automaticaly?

T2 is a source based distro

www.t2-project.org

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