[libvirt] [PATCH] spec: Only call ldconfig on RHEL7

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Mar 19 16:10:03 UTC 2019


On 3/19/19 11:59 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-03-19 at 10:49 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 3/19/19 4:13 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 15:35 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>>    %post client
>>>>    
>>>> +%if 0%{?rhel} == 7
>>>>    /sbin/ldconfig
>>>> +%endif
>>>>    %systemd_post libvirt-guests.service
>>>>    
>>>>    %postun client
>>>>    
>>>> +%if 0%{?rhel} == 7
>>>>    /sbin/ldconfig
>>>> +%endif
>>>>    %systemd_postun libvirt-guests.service
>>>
>>> IIUC ldconfig should be called after installing the libraries, but
>>> here we're calling it in %post(un) for the client subpackage which
>>> I believe is incorrect. We should fix that too.
>>
>> Calling /sbin/ldconfig from postun is recommended on fedora < 28 (and
>> thus I presume rhel7), according to:
>>
>> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Scriptlets/
>>
>> The wiki page in the git commit also indicates that previously packages
>> would call /sbin/ldconfig on postun too, with the %postun -p
>> /sbin/ldconfig call
> 
> What I was pointing out is that you're supposed to run ldconfig
> after (un)installing libraries: our libraries are shipped in the
> libvirt-libs package, but according to the spec file we're running
> ldconfig after (un)installing the client binaries instead, and that
> seems like a bug to me.
> 

Ah yes. Probably missed when libvirt-libs was split out of 
libvirt-client, commit 70b4f0e719cd

- Cole




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