[Fedora-packaging] ldconfig -X in scriptlets?

[Rex Dieter]

On 08/05/2009 01:50 PM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:45:20AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> On 08/05/2009 10:07 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>>> I've recently come across an ldconfig issue when updating libraries.
>>> Apparently rpm doesn't always call ldconfig in %postun, I've filed bug
>>> #513224 for that. It doesn't seem to be a real bug though.
>>
>> Interesting, might this be related to the odd symlinks changing problem
>> in qt as well?
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510246
>
> I think it is. And this one is even better as calling /sbin/ldconfig
> afterwards doesn't revert it.
>
> Before ldconfig call in qt %post:
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so ->  libQtCore.so.4.5.0
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4 ->  libQtCore.so.4.5.2
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4.5 ->  libQtCore.so.4.5.2
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4.5.0
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4.5.2
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore_debug.so ->  libQtCore.so
>
> After:
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so ->  libQtCore.so.4.5.0
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4 ->  libQtCore_debug.so
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4.5 ->  libQtCore.so.4.5.2
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4.5.0
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4.5.2
>   /usr/lib64/libQtCore_debug.so ->  libQtCore.so
>
> It seems that ldconfig is comparing everything (including symlinks)
> providing libQtCore.so.4 and libQtCore_debug.so comes out as last. It
> doesn't point to the same file as the original symlink, so it's
> changed. Using ldconfig -X should avoid it.

OK, then, for the love of all that is holy, let's get -X using asap. 
Followup, why isn't -X the default behavior?

-- Rex