Re: [modularity] Modularizing the world fast and iteratively

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On 09/07/2017 01:50 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> The per-symbol API versioning in RPM was proposed five years ago by
> ALT Linux people. It actually works well in their RPM fork.
> 
> An isolated version of that code is available at https://github.com/svpv/rpmss
> 
> You may want to read http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/5356.html and
> associated thread discussion to understand how it all works, but
> overall it is much better suited to cover per-symbol export and import
> between ELF objects. The ABI requirements become explicit and ability to
> automatically detect which applications are using which symbols from a
> library affected by a CVE is a good example where this could be used.

Also of interest...

Bug 1320954 - rpm: Support equivalent of Debian's symbols files for finer-grained ELF dependencies
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320954

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.
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