[RFC] change packaging around shared libraries, ldconfig

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jun 27 15:04:23 UTC 2007


Jakub Jelinek (jakub at redhat.com) said: 
> Well, if you are moving the same SONAME to a different path (found earlier
> in ldconfig's search path) and adding new symbols at the same time, you can
> have issues.
> Say, package foobar used to have libfoobar.so.1 in /usr/lib64, a new
> version moves it to /lib64 because barbaz program needs it before /usr is
> mounted.  If it adds a new symbol foo to that library at the same time
> and /bin/bar program which is run during %post needs it, you loose
> without ldconfig run.

This is the only case, though - correct? So this case could be handled
with a trigger, or something similar.

Bill




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