[RFC] change packaging around shared libraries, ldconfig
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Jun 27 15:20:40 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 09:36 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> > Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said:
> >> Doesn't ldconfig also update ld.so.cache? If so, won't "bad things"
> >> happen if that cache is stale, like when/if 2 pkgs are installed in a
> >> transaction, and pkg #2 depends on shlibs from pkg #1?
> >
> > If the cache is stale, it will look in the directories for something that
> > doesn't exist in the cache. I'm trying to think of a way the cache could
> > point to the wrong *version* of the library, but nothing is coming to
> > mind.
>
> pkg #1 upgrade: old version includes libfoo.so.1, new version includes
> libfoo.so.2
> pkg #2: scriptlet requires something from pkg #1, which uses libfoo.so.2
> bang.
how would that break?
an update is an install then an erase.
so we install libfoo which drops in libfoo.so.2 and the symlinks it
needs
If the scriptlets have a special preun req then they need to have it
listed.
-sv
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