NAME

revdep.d — additional library directories for revdep

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Upon startup, revdep(1) searches the /etc/revdep.d directory for files named after packages. If any are found, any directories (assumed to be absolute paths and delimited by newlines) within the file are added to a list of package specific directories to search if a library dependency is not found in one of the many standard locations (as specified by ld.so(8)). Empty lines or lines beginning with ‘#’ are ignored.

FILES

/etc/revdep.d/*

Default location for the files described in this manual page.

EXAMPLES

If a package is discovered to have a library dependencies that are in non-standard directory, e.g. /usr/lib/firefox then a file named firefox should be created under /etc/revdep.d with a single line containing /usr/lib/firefox. This will tell revdep(1) where to find firefox's solibs when looking for its library dependencies, reducing one source of false positives.

/usr/lib/firefox

Ideally, this file would be included with the package's own packaging as well.

SEE ALSO

revdep(1)