On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 11:01:01AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Dan Čermák: > > > it has been recently proposed to switch openSUSE to run ldconfig via a > > %transfiletriggerin/-un scriptlet instead of manually in %post & %postun > > the same way as Fedora does it at the moment. > > > > However, an interesting issue has been raised: what happens if package A > > gets upgraded in the same transaction as package B, but B needs A during > > the upgrade. A will install a new shared library, but ldconfig will run > > after B has already tried to upgrade. > > Fedora ships the soname links in the package, addressing this issue. > For example, openssl-libs contains: > > /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 > /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1.1k > /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1 > /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1.1k > > As a result, running ldconfig is purely an optimization. > > There are some packages that install fails into /etc/ld.so.conf.d, and > such packages still have to run ldconfig explicitly. (We should perhaps > move those shared objects to /usr/lib64, too.)
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