[arch-general] ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.8: -- do I just rebuild the AUR packages?

[Byron Clark]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 05:59:33PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 04/17/2010 02:09 PM, Byron Clark wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:02:55AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 26, in <module>
> >>     import rpm
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
> >>     from _rpm import *
> >> ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> >> directory
> > 
> > It looks like the python bindings for rpm are broken, you'll probably
> > want to rebuild whatever package owns
> > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Byron,
> 
> 	The issue ended up being a new libssl version. Thankfully there was a
> libssl-compatibility package in AUR that provided libssl.so.0.9.8.

That's one way to fix it.  The other way is to rebuild rpm or whichever
of its dependencies link to libssl.so.

-- 
Byron Clark