Caution! Bad SONAME Provides

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:16 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 11:09:39 Adam Jackson wrote:
> > How should I filter these, short of AutoReqProv: 0 ?
> 
> One "way" would be to not mark these libraries as executable.  IIRC rpm 
> autoprov/req scripts will only consider libraries that are marked as 
> executable.  Of course, that may kill /both/ provides and requires, and you 
> may want those requires to happen...

I thought dlopen would carp about non-executable files, but I appear to
be mistaken.

Another way, I suppose, would be to rip the soname field out of the DSO.
There doesn't seem to be a standard utility to do that though.

- ajax