curses! foiled again

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:40:22PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> >   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2006-12-02 10:23 libncurses.so.5 -> libcurses.so
> > libncurses.so.5 points to libcurses.so (without an "n") which is,
> > indeed, a short file:
> > 
> >   % cat libcurses.so
> >   INPUT(-lncurses)
> > 
> > That's rather short of the entry points I would ordinarily expect to
> > find in a curses library.  Plus it's an ascii file.
> > 
> > My ncurses packages verify fine, so I don't *think* this is a
> > locally-hosed system.

The issue is reported at #229737. 

> Just rm -f /usr/lib*/libncurses.so.5, perhaps rerun /sbin/ldconfig
> and things ought to be fine.  Wonder if ncurses package should delete
> this symlink in %post or something similar (though I believe it is just
> older rawhide ncurses that would need such a fixup).

Yes, upgrading from FC6 ncurses is ok. It's possible to remove the
link in a post script in ncurses-devel package. But upgrade paths are
supported only since Test3, is that correct?

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar