seth vidal wrote:
Hi all,
I've compiled a list of all packages that have a file dependency
outside of these globs:
*bin/*, /etc/*
I'm going to file a bug against each of the packages to see if we can
work out a virtual provide/requires to deal with this problem.
The issue is this: In order for apt/smart/yum to depsolve for a
dependency like:
/usr/libexec/poker3d/underware
each of them have to download the full filelists for ALL enabled
repositories in the configuration.
For Everything it is 8MB
For Updates it is 3.5MB
That's a fair sized chunk. In the shape of updates it gets updated
frequently and it needs to be re-downloaded. That's unfortunate for a
lot of users.
So I'm going to file bugs against each of the packages which have this
issue and we're going to work out a solution. One way or another. :)
Rawhide:
http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/crack-filedeps-by-pkg-rawhide
What I'm going to recommend for the moment is that for each package with
a file-dep for multilib purposes we consider making virtual provides in
the corresponding providing pkg[s] that handle the declaration
per-architecture or library-type.
In some cases this is just legacy dreck that we can now clean up.
Okay, these are mine (which I already knew without looking at the report, as I
very deliberately added the filedeps):
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
xblast-0:2.10.4-5.fc9.i386
chess-0:1.0-12.fc9.i386
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
sdljava-demo-0:0.9.1-9.fc9.i386
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
sdljava-demo-0:0.9.1-9.fc9.i386
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf
sdljava-demo-0:0.9.1-9.fc9.i386
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
sdljava-demo-0:0.9.1-9.fc9.i386
The problem with these packages is that the application in question (==
game-ish app, using its own fontrending) opens these fonts by filename. not
true any known font configuration mechanism.
Combine this with the fact that fonts change both location and name regulary,
and a simple dep on the font providing package wont't do. With these (not
pretty) file deps I actually get broken deps reports send to me when this
happens. Don't believe me? This is from the sdljava-demo changelog:
* Sun Dec 9 2007 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> 0.9.1-7
- And the dejavu-fonts fontfile names changed back again (what fun)
<more changes snipped>
* Tue Nov 20 2007 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> 0.9.1-6
- Adjust font symlinks in sdljava-demo package for fontfile name changes in
dejavu-fonts (bz 388861)
On the postive site, very few people have either of these installed, so I guess
the best solution here is to notfix. But I'm open for other ways of catching
filename changes in another package without using file deps.
Regards,
Hans
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