Hi all,
I've been gathering bits and pieces of information regarding the
packaging of shared libraries for a while now. As I understand it:
- Normal .so libraries with versioned filenames go into the base package
for a program when they exist
- Unversioned .so libraries go into the -devel package
-- If there are no versioned libraries for a program, should a
versioned library be added or should the unversioned .so file be
included in the base package?
- Libraries which are used by other programs at runtime should be
versioned, and in %{_libdir}
-- Are there exceptions to this? When is it appropriate to leverage
subdirectories and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/?
- Libraries which are plugins to one specific program, and are dlopened
by that program, do not need a versioned filename. They should go in
their own subdierctory in %{_libdir} (e.g. /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10)
-- If packaged as seperate plugins, they should be in packages called
packagename-plugins-pluginname, or something similar
- All shared library filenames should begin with lib
A lot of this isn't in the packaging guidelines, I think if these points
could be clarified and included in the guidelines it would help to
answer a lot of questions.
Thanks,
Rich
--
Fedora-packaging mailing list
Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
