Caution! Bad SONAME Provides

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 13:11 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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.
Are you serious? IMO, this is the worst imaginable approach, directly
leading into Windowish DLL hell.

The bugs related to SONAME handling are in rpm and the package managers.
The SONAMEs are just the trigger, not cause.

Ralf