[csw-maintainers] Better shared object dependency checking in checkpkg out for testing

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>> I know you mentioned "modules" down the road, but this particular bit
>> is possibly more useful to a wider audience, so it could be beneficial
>> that way.
>>
>> call it "checkpkgdeps", perhaps ?
>
> It certainly could be used standalone.  However, its primary use is to
> be part of a larger test suite -  a modular checkpkg.  It doesn't do
> certain things, for example it doesn't extract the package the way
> checkpkg does.  To be standalone and useful, it would need be armored
> with the unpacking code.  The unpacking code is already there in
> checkpkg, perhaps we can reuse it?


If you like.
Or you could use the system pkgtrans on a pkg file, but fail if gzipped.
Or you could make it a little plainer and just expect a directory, and
let the caller deal with providing the package in directory format.