ldconfig and Provides

["Kenneth Porter" <shiva well com>]

I just built a new gd package from the SRPM in RH7. I was unable to
upgrade the old version, though, as it failed to satisfy dependencies
on libgd.so.1 required by linuxconf and other packages. The gd package
runs ldconfig in the %post and %postun scripts to update symlinks.

I patched gd.spec to add "Provides: libgd.so.1" to get around the
dependency. Upon installing, I found that ldconfig created the libgd.so
and libgd.so.1.8 symlinks, but not the .1 symlink. I'm no ldconfig
expert, so I don't know what's going wrong. Why did ldconfig fail to
create the .1 symlink, and why did RPM fail to include the symlinks in
the provided files? (I added the link by hand to allow the other
packages to continue to run.)

(This is a rewording of a bugzilla report:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22001)

Ken
mailto:shiva@well.com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/