On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 17:18:00 +0200, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 08:35:03 -0600, Bruno wrote: > > > Am I getting the warning below because there is a period in the lib name? > > mygui-devel.i686: E: invalid-soname /usr/lib/libMyGUI.OgrePlatform.so > > > > If so, is it really an error? > > > (far behind with some of my folders) > > As no reply is listed in this thread: > > rpmlint verbose info would say: '''The soname of the library is neither of > the form lib<libname>.so.<major> or lib<libname>-<major>.so.''', > > The period really isn't the problem, the missing version number is. > Often it's an error because it bears a higher risk of causing breakage. > > Btw, "mygui" in Fedora 14 is mispackaged related to this. This lib > has been moved into a private directory %_libdir/MYGUI/ where it is > placed outside run-time linker's search path. The lib isn't found by > the -tools and -demos, which are linked with it. Additionally, some > of the packages suffer from unowned directories. Thanks. I filed a bug about this. I'll look at getting things fixed for this, probably in an F16 time frame, as it will be past beta by the time I get a chance to look at it in depth and I don't want to break other packages. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
