[gentoo-dev] openssl and preserve_old_lib_notify pitfall

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Hi, 

Just by accident I noticed during emerge something that may lead to major 
confusion: the just stabilized openssl-1.0.0-r3 contains the following code:

pkg_postinst() {
        ...
        has_version ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:0.9.8 && return 0
        preserve_old_lib_notify /usr/$(get_libdir)/lib{crypto,ssl}.so.0.9.8
}

However, portage in my case first updated openssl (slot 0) from 0.9.8 to this 
version, _printing out the preserve_old_lib_notify message_, and then 
afterwards installed openssl-0.9.8o-r2.

Net result: if I had relied on the elog messages alone, I would have messed up 
my system by deleting the required files from openssl:0.9.8...

I have no clue how this could be improved, though. Any ideas?

Cheers, Andreas

-- 
Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer - kde, sci, sunrise
dilfri...@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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