[arch-general] New PKGBUILD for libtorrent-rasterbar

Ray Kohler ataraxia937 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 14:42:44 EDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jeff Horelick <jdhore1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quick thing to change that i just noticed. The libtorrent-rasterbar.so
> version was bumped (from libtorrent-rasterbar.so.4 to
> libtorrent-rasterbar.so.5) and that confuses at the very least Deluge and
> possibly other clients as well that use the versioned library rather than
> the plain .so. Perhaps add a symlink in the PKGBUILD to link
> libtorrent-rasterbar.so.5 to libtorrent-rasterbar.so.4 or
> libtorrent-rasterbar.so to libtorrent-rasterbar.so.4.

That is a bad idea. The soname version changed for a reason. You don't
want to give apps expecting version 4 a version 5 library. Instead,
all apps that link this library need to be rebuilt.


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