Clarification on Packaging Guidelines
Denis Leroy
denis at poolshark.org
Thu Jun 29 15:49:25 UTC 2006
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Eric Work wrote:
>
>
>>I was previously unsure whether %pre/%post ldconfig lines on shared
>>library devel packages were needed. In a recent discussion with some
>>others on #fedora-extras I was informed that they were not needed.
>
>
> The policy is clear, IMO, ldconfig is needed if said package includes any
> shared libraries (pkgs with *symlinks* to shared libs, like most -devel
> ones, don't count).
I think there's an implicit assumption here that you are installing
shared libraries *meant to be picked up by the dynamic linker*. Some
packages ship dynamic libraries that are dlopened() directly by the
application (plugins), in that case calling ldconfig will not do
anything and so is not necessary.
-denis
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