Re: RPM packaging and ldconfig handling

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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:14 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I re-skimmed the whole thread so I apologize if I missed it, but I have a
> couple of questions:
>
> 1. The packaging guidelines still require the explicit use of calling
> ldconfig, so even if it's not technically required, it would be against the
> guidelines to remove them, correct?
>

New guidelines are being drafted:
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/654

> 2. Is the plan to update for all supported Fedora releases and not just
> Rawhide? Otherwise we're back in conditional hell which I thought we were
> trying to move away from. (Again, the suggested workflow in the wiki for
> managing branches is to merge across them).
>

We could technically push them to all supported Fedora releases, but
that would force a requirement to have a specific minimum version of
glibc per distribution release, and that's just too much. It's easier
to just let it fade out of existence.

In addition, the usage of ldconfig macros being made should make this
a non-issue.

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