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

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:37:19PM -0600, Muhammed Uluyol wrote:
> > 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
> 

So what ? An update should create/adjust that symlink
and it currently does. There's no problem with that.
Just don't delete the old *.so, that's all I ask.

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