On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 11:01:01AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Dan Čermák: > > > it has been recently proposed to switch openSUSE to run ldconfig via a > > %transfiletriggerin/-un scriptlet instead of manually in %post & %postun > > the same way as Fedora does it at the moment. > > > > However, an interesting issue has been raised: what happens if package A > > gets upgraded in the same transaction as package B, but B needs A during > > the upgrade. A will install a new shared library, but ldconfig will run > > after B has already tried to upgrade. > > Fedora ships the soname links in the package, addressing this issue. > For example, openssl-libs contains: > > /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 > /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1.1k > /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1 > /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1.1k > > As a result, running ldconfig is purely an optimization. > > There are some packages that install fails into /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and > such packages still have to run ldconfig explicitly. (We should perhaps > move those shared objects to /usr/lib64, too.) Did anyone measure if ldconfig caching is actually useful on modern machines? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
