On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Japheth J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Side question: Is rpm compiled statically? *checks* ... nope. If anything is going to remain statically compiled on the system, I'd say package management tools would be good candidates too, for this very reason.
Well, I think it's a little bit complicated that that. RPM manipulates the same database as yum does. That database (I'm talking about the files in /var/lib/rpm/) is in Berkley DB format. So if something changes in the Berkley DB API for some reason (version/format change as it was from 3 to 4?) then all the tools should still be able to open those files. In order to accomplish this and also to have the RPM utils statically compiled you will have to compile statically (or at least to compile statically the BDB support) a lot of tools like Python, used by yum. And this is not feasible, I think. Keeping a statically compiled python binary (and maybe some other libraries and/or binaries) somewhere on the filesystem could be a solution, but it's more like an ugly hack than a feature.
Moreover, I think that static linking might be a step backwards in time. If you remove or by some stupid or good reason (and there are so few reasons for this to happen in real life...) some important libraries (like libc.so.6) in your system are damaged then... that's life: boot from a CD and rpm -Uhv --force -r /mount/point or rpm2cpio are your friends.
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