Daniel Jacobowitz writes ("Re: Bug#447609: ldconfig triggerisation"): > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:11:37AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > The only failure case I can think of would be a package which places > > > libraries in the multi-arch directories, which Debian locates using a > > > file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and the same or another package which runs > > > a newly installed program using the library from the first package > > > in its postinst. > > > > Do such packages typically invoke ldconfig in the same way as a normal > > package does ? If not then we could distinguish the two kinds of > > ldconfig call. > > I don't think there would be any difference.
Hrm. That's troublesome. Can we insist on them making such a different invocation ? If we can't then the ldconfig provided by glibc can't tell the difference and AFAICS that means we can't provide the optimisation without updating all packages. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]