Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Today when using F17 Alpha, I ran qemu and got an error which was > something like: > > qemu-kvm: undefined symbol usbredirhost_foo > > (I don't recall the precise symbol). This was just because that > version of qemu was compiled against a later version of > libusbredirhost.so (but one with the same soname), and updating > libusbredirhost.so fixed the problem. > > The 'qemu' package has a bug, of sorts: the maintainer should have > added a specific Requires line: > > Requires: usbredir >= <some version> > > However, instead of pushing this problem on packagers, maybe RPM > should resolve this by encoding the (admittedly long) list of symbols > used by a binary? rpm does handle this, provided the library in question uses symbol versioning. In this case, I'm guessing that useredir did one or more of the following: 1. broke abi, but didn't bump soname 2. doesn't support symbol versioning at all 3. does do symbol versioning (in general), but botched it wrt usbredirhost_foo -- rex -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
