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On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 15:26 -0700, 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. Currently it is up to the individual package maintainers to |
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> do this in their own way. I've had to do it enough times that I decided |
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> it might be best to just write something into eutils.eclass to handle |
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> it... so... |
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In my experience most packages that change their .so versioning do so |
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unneeded, best is to just fix the upstream versioning & ask the |
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maintainers to do it 'correctly'. Only in a few select cases it is |
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really needed to do revdep-rebuild. |
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- foser |
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