On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:11 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:11:33AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > In general it is not a problem, but I think that this should be avoided. In most cases this is not a problem for RH/Fedora. But it is a problem outside of RH/Fedora, e.g. for 3rd party packages designed for parallel installation, containing DSOs with the same names as Fedora. > It has been already pointed out in lists, and in numerous package > submissions (I always look for sane provides and for perl packages > there are the 'usual bogusprovides on .so files'). I just have filled a > bug against rpm: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224544 > > Another possible solution would be to avoid setting the SONAME for the > files that are only to be dlopened. libtool always set the soname, and it > seems to be the same for perl. Maybe this is where things should be > fixed? Nope, the bug is in rpmbuild rsp. redhat-rpm-config. They produce invalid results. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
