>>>> "RR" == Roberto Ragusa
<mail(a)robertoragusa.it> writes:
RR> When I proposed this kind of optimization in some mailing list
RR> (maybe this one?!), I was answered that my method was not entirely
RR> safe because there could have been problems for some rpm scripts
RR> calling libraries that had been just upgraded (e.g. perl libraries)
RR> without a proper ldconfig refresh.
The cache is just a cache, but ldconfig has other functionality besides
generating the cache. It also creates the various symlinks to the .so*
files.
RR> Was that a valid consideration? Has something changed on that front?
It was, and packages will now fail to build (via brp-ldconfig) if they
don't package those symlinks. Though in practice packages which did not
do this would have been exceedingly rare anyway and when I checked the
package set looking for examples a year ago I think I only turned up two
examples.
- J<