Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm exploring possibilities on how to track usage of a particular library
>> symbol via rpm dependencies.
>>
>> In particular, whenever a package is built that includes a dependency on
>> library symbol:
>> libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5_PRIVATE_API)
>>
>> I'd like to inject additional dependencies, something like:
>> Requires: qt5-qtbase = %{_qt5_version}
>>
>> I've been told debian does a variant of this, but I've not been able to
>> come
>> up with any good way to do that here. Any ideas or suggestions?
>>
>>
>> (I know this would be handled automatically if the Qt_5_PRIVATE_API
>> symbol was versioned, but that's an option we'd rather avoid if
>> reasonably possible)
>
> You can write a dependency generator that would call a script that
> executes rpmdeps the same way as the real generator does. If it's
> detected, you can have it emit that dependency back as a Requires.
Can you be a little more specific?
In particular, I'm not interested in re-inventing any wheels here. I
included the phrase "reasonably possible" intentionally.
-- Rex
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