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

[Muhammed Uluyol]

> 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.

It is created 'inside' of the package, not during the installation.

$ bsdtar tzf libpng-1.4.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
.PKGINFO
.CHANGELOG
usr/
usr/lib/
usr/bin/
usr/share/
usr/include/
usr/include/pngconf.h
usr/include/png.h
usr/include/libpng14/
usr/include/libpng14/pngconf.h
usr/include/libpng14/png.h
usr/share/man/
usr/share/licenses/
usr/share/licenses/libpng/
usr/share/licenses/libpng/LICENSE
usr/share/man/man3/
usr/share/man/man5/
usr/share/man/man5/png.5.gz
usr/share/man/man3/libpngpf.3.gz
usr/share/man/man3/libpng.3.gz
usr/bin/pnm2png
usr/bin/libpng14-config
usr/bin/png2pnm
usr/bin/libpng-config
usr/lib/libpng14.so.14
usr/lib/libpng.so                          <--- Right there
usr/lib/libpng14.a
usr/lib/libpng.a
usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.0.0
usr/lib/pkgconfig/
usr/lib/libpng14.so
usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng.pc
usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng14.pc