rpm AutoRequires/AutoProvides and dsos not in linker path, do we care ?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jun 18 02:50:43 UTC 2009


Chuck Anderson (cra at WPI.EDU) said: 
> > "system-wide" includes paths mentioned in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*, which are
> > files provided by other packages.  Suddenly your search scope is
> > unbounded again.
> 
> Not really unbounded.  If a package puts a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ 
> then the library is now available system-wide, so it should be 
> searched by autorequires/autoprovides.

The package that puts the file in ld.so.conf.d and the package that
puts libraries into the location specified in that file may not be
the same package, and actually may have no dependencies between
them at all...

Bill




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