On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 19:32 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 13:11 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:16 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > On Friday 22 June 2007 11:09:39 Adam Jackson wrote: > > > > How should I filter these, short of AutoReqProv: 0 ? > > > > > > One "way" would be to not mark these libraries as executable. IIRC rpm > > > autoprov/req scripts will only consider libraries that are marked as > > > executable. Of course, that may kill /both/ provides and requires, and you > > > may want those requires to happen... > > > > I thought dlopen would carp about non-executable files, but I appear to > > be mistaken. > > > > Another way, I suppose, would be to rip the soname field out of the DSO. > Are you serious? IMO, this is the worst imaginable approach, directly > leading into Windowish DLL hell. > > The bugs related to SONAME handling are in rpm and the package managers. > The SONAMEs are just the trigger, not cause. Yes, I am serious. I have lots of modules that you're never supposed to link against. They're called X drivers, they're dlopen-only. The soname is completely superfluous, and is only there because libtool is such a flaming pile of crap. - ajax -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
