On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Ok, sure. That sounds like a good idea. Please send your patch to the pacman-dev mailing list.
