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On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 15:26, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: |
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> When the soname of a lib changes between versions of a package, we need |
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> to do a revdep-rebuild --soname <old lib> to make sure all programs that |
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> link against the old lib are rebuilt to use the new one. In order to |
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> not break currently installed programs, it is best for a package to keep |
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> the old version around until this process is done and the user deletes |
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> the file. |
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Most users will forget to delete the file and have tons of stale, old |
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libs sitting around on their systems unless revdep-rebuild does it for |
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them once it rebuilds things to not depend on said lib. |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Gentoo Linux |
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