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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:20 PM,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> 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.

"make install" does it