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. -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
