On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:27:57AM +0100, vlad wrote:
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:54:43PM +0100, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:36:55AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
you are focusing only on .so which is different but this schema will work only if the package is split in lib, -dev, whatever as now, the headers will conflict since it have the same name on the same location.
Not true. When a new version is installed, the headers are replaced, and the symlink from 'libfoo.so' is modified to the new version.
In a link step you refer to the lib as '-lfoo' which gets translated (via that symlink) into 'libfoo.so.N', the newest installed version.
If you have separate -dev and -lib packages (and Arch hasn't AFAICS) it is the package manager's job to always replace both in sync. Nothing magical about that, all distros I used before just did it that way.
Afais a pointless discussion. Arch _is_ a rolling distro.
Keeping the old *.so.1.2.3 and *.so.1 (and only those) when a new version is installed is *not* contradictory to being a rolling release. I'd even say that a rolling release requires this even more than a fully versioned one, where everything is replaced anyway if you update. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !