[arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:17:15PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:54 PM,  <fons at 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.
> 
> pacman doesn't deal in symlinks in this manner. I think your
> understanding of WHAT a package is is a little off.

So *who* creates the symlink from libfoo.so ->
libfoo.so.1.2.3 ? It's either pacman or ldconfig
called by pacman. Unless you believe in little
gremlins doing it while you sleep.

Ciao, 

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