[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] [RFC] 33% speedup in RPM!

Leland Ray Leland_Ray at symantec.com
Tue Jun 26 16:38:58 UTC 2007


 
What is the recommendation for packaging shared libraries that need a
link from their soname to their filename, if not using ldconfig? Is it
to manage link creation/deletion within scriptlets, or am I missing
something?



-----Original Message-----
From: rpm-maint-bounces at lists.rpm.org
[mailto:rpm-maint-bounces at lists.rpm.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hatle
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:23 AM
To: Bill Nottingham
Cc: rpm-maint at lists.rpm.org
Subject: Re: [Rpm-maint] [PATCH] [RFC] 33% speedup in RPM!

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Testing used for the following patch:
> 
...
> Of course, it's a complete buzzsaw of a patch. To make this work, we'd

> need:
> 
> 1) define one run of this as a post-transaction tool
> 2) make it packaging policy that the proper symlinks always be
>    shipped in the package

In the packages I've worked with, this has always been policy.  It's not
difficult to ensure that all of the proper symlinks are always shipped
in a package.

(Using ldconfig to generate missing symlinks is a really bad crutch,
IMHO, that should be avoided.  Most people don't realize this, but
ldconfig (and ld.so.cache) aren't actually needed for a linux system to
operator correctly.)

--Mark

> Opinions?
> 
> Bill
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