Porteus

Hello community,

once again i need to ask Porteus users for help
this time i'm working on creating a simple text database containing packages from official repo which requires non binary dependencies not resolved automatically by Porteus Package Manager.

by 'non binary' dependency i mean python, perl or functional dependencies (basically - everything what can't be tracked by 'ldd' command)

example of missing python dependency:
wicd needs 'python' and following other python packages to work: dbus-python, pygobject, pycairo, pygtk

example of missing functional dependency:
k3b requires 'cdrdao' package otherwise wont be able to burn anything
truecrypt needs sudo for non root user
etc ....

my current database can be find here:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/testing/EXTRA-DEPS.txt

please share your experience with unresolved deps while using PPM and i'll be happy to add other packages (and their extra deps) to the database.
this file will be used while constructing official repo for porteus-2.0 so hopefully all (binary/non binary) deps will be resolved in porteus-2.x releases.
sounds great but i need to obtain some help first.

btw: this topic is an example of troubles i'm trying to avoid in porteus-2.0 and later:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=1635

thanks in advance.

Kdenlive dependencies seems to be not resolved.

this thread is for helping with resolving non binary deps (for reports like: module 'A' needs deps 'B' and 'C').
if you want to report missing deps then please post it here:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1356

btw: PPM shows all deps resolved for kdenlive (47 packages):
http://oi47.tinypic.com/2wn71aa.jpg

Cheers

Ok sorry.

The name that is set at 'REQUIRED-OTHER:' is a package base name or package name ?
I think that for the libreoffice language pack case, it is better to set a package name.

============================================
Following test was done by multi-languages version PPM.

1.download libreoffice
/a/b/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz
/a/b/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_rpm_langpack_ja.tar.gz

2.create test shell script in work directory
/home/guest/work/test.sh

test.sh
#====================
#! /bin/sh
PKG=`echo ${1##*/} | sed 's/.tar.gz//'`
tar -xzf $1
mkdir $2
cd $2
for RPM in `ls ../$PKG/RPMS/*.rpm`
do
rpm2cpio $RPM | cpio -dium
done
cd ../
rm dir2mod
ln -sf /opt/porteus-scripts/ppm/app/appCom dir2mod
./dir2mod $2 $2
rm dir2mod
sed -i -r -e 's@^PACKAGE CATEGORY:.*$@PACKAGE CATEGORY: office@' $2/var/log/packages/$2
exit
#====================

3.perform test.sh
% cd /home/guest/work
% su
# sh test.sh /a/b/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_rpm.tar.gz libreoffice-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1
# sh test.sh /a/b/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.beta1_Linux_x86_rpm_langpack_ja.tar.gz libreoffice_langpack_ja-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1

4.edit PPM's informations

libreoffice-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1/var/log/packages/libreoffice_langpack_ja-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1
->PACKAGE CATEGORY: office, etc

libreoffice_langpack_ja-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1/var/log/packages/libreoffice_langpack_ja-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1
->PACKAGE CATEGORY: office, etc

libreoffice_langpack_ja-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1/var/porteus/libreoffice_langpack_ja-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1.info
-> REQUIRED-OTHER: libreoffice-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1

5. create modules by PPM
libreoffice-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1.xzm
libreoffice_langpack_ja-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1.xzm

6. set linkage
# cd /PPM-module-directory
# ln -sf /home/guest/work/*.xzm .

6. install libreoffice_langpack_ja-4.2.0.0.beta1-i486-1.xzm by PPM
(ignore KDE dependencies.)*

*It may be multi-languages version PPM's bug.

Hi Neko, Yes REQUIRED-OTHER: is a package base name. They are for packages that ldd will not resolve such as python deps etc. These are stored in a separate line in the LIBS.TXT file on the server.

Bumping this post as it is a very good one. I will try to come back to contribute. I am sure that many of us have something to add for the better functioning of the repository and of PPM. 8)