On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > I agree that there are major advantages to splitting the libraries out > > of the package, but why can't you just update the whole openssl > > package to get the library update? In fact, the -devel split you're > > talking about where the bare .so links and the headers are in a > > separate package wouldn't affect a library update in any way. In most > > cases, the .so.* links are part of the main package anyway (including > > openssl). > > Think about the way dependencies are expressed. The automatic dependnecy > extractor says: "package cryptofoo [that was built before openssl upgrade] > depends on libssl.so.0.9.8 due to library dependencies". If you attempt to > upgrade the whole openssl library to 0.9.9 (i.e. a binary incompatible > release--that's important) without the split, the package manager will not be > able to do this, because the new package does not provide libssl.so.0.9.8 and > thus the cryptofoo package's dependencies are not satisfied with the new > openssl > package. I.e., with such incompatible upgrades, it is convenient to have the > following installed during the transitions: old openssl dynamic libraries > without the .so symlinks, new openssl dynamic libraries with the .so > symlinks, > new headers. You can't have all three at the same time without splitting the > package (assuming that the package manager knows about file conflicts).
I certainly agree that it's best to handle situations like that, but does RPM even support it? I.e., if I split off a libssl subpackage that just has libssl.so.0.9.8, would RPM even allow me to install a newer version of libssl in parallel without --force or something? I don't know much here, but it seems that Fedora is getting along fine without putting libraries in separate subpackages. On the other hand, I notice that Debian/Ubuntu always splits the libraries into separate packages. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
