On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:56:43 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > But there may be a simple and robust way to automate and avoid > this problem. There is, you can apply 1-level symbol versions and RPM will use them to understand library minor versions. This is easy to do though it *MUST* be done upstream. Doing this downstream will strongly risk breaking binary compatibility with other distributions which is unacceptable. Fortunately the patch to add 1-level (as opposed to multi-level like glibc itself uses) symbol versioning is fairly trivial. The hardest part is figuring out which symbols are exported by which versions but I expect given a set of RPMs it could be automated. Doing this for glib (or indeed the entire GTK+ stack) would be a nice feature improvement for the next major release I'd think, but obviously you'd need to take this to gtk-devel-list. thanks -mike
