GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:37:23 +0100 (CET), > Santiago Vila wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> > Conclusion: >> > >> > - I would like to see those links in sarge (for amd64 only, no change >> > for other archs) since they are currently essential for amd64 (glibc >> > relies on it). What package provides them is no that important. In >> > base-files it is realy simple to do so. >> > >> > - If the links are split out of base-files into other debs and those >> > don't make it to sarge I would still rather patch base-files for >> > sarge amd64 before I touch anything else. It is the simplest place >> > to put them. >> >> My conclusion: As the symlinks will not be there forever, it's glibc >> who relies on them, and there might be potential problems at the time >> of removing them if they are not in the same package as the dynamic >> linker or libc6, I consider the glibc package should be the one to >> manage the symlinks. > > Looking at the patch, there're two symlinks: /lib64 and > /usr/X11R6/lib64. We don't touch /usr/X11R6 in libc6.
3: /lib, /usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib. The /lib64 -> /lib link is essential for the ld to be found and as Santagio says glibc should take care of it. The other two links are more a convenience so less software has to be patched. Since glibc also puts things in /usr/lib it could take care of that link too. The X11R6 link could possibly come from X11 itself but currently it comes from the amd64 patched base-files. If you want to take care of all 3 links in glibc that would be fine. > Andreas, is it nice to symlink from /lib to /lib64 ? I agree we have > /lib64 on amd64. > > Regards, > -- gotom Currently lib64 links to lib and reversing that link would mean rebuilding every library package because otherwise dpkg-shlibs won't work. It would mean patching every lib package to build for lib64 instead of the current lib to get correct *.la files and dpkgs *.files info. So please don't reverse that link, it would destroy everything we worked for. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]