On 09-Apr-98, 22:04 (CDT), Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "LeRoy D. Cressy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I question the purpose of leaving broken symbolic links when > > upgrading the libraries. For instance libreadline2 leaves > > the following broken links reported by ldconfig: > > Those symlinks are part of libreadline2-dev. If you upgrade to > libreadline2-altdev, then the links will be fixed.
There's the general problem that library symlinks aren't removed when the library is removed, thus leading to a buildup of "file not found" messages from ldconfig until I get tired of them and clean them out. Removing a library should remove all the symlinks as well. I'm not sure whether this is in fact the way it supposed to work, and it's just that I continually run into buggy packages, or whether this is something that needs to be added to policy (I guess I should go read the policy manual to see what it says...). Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
