[Vserver] File clash between libvserver and util-vserver: libvserver.so
util-vserver should be known well enough, libvserver is a project started by Benedikt Boehm in the time when Enrico was away. It provides an interface to the vserver-patched kernel. Homepage of libvserver: http://dev.croup.de/proj/libvserver/wiki Libvserver provides a shared object, libvserver.so.1, while util-vserver provides libvserver.so.0. Those two file have different origins, don't share code and have different APIs. We first hit a problem with the libvserver Debian package (unofficial, provided by Balint Laszlo Biller), which was not installable in parallel with the util-vserver package (the official one), since they both contained a libvserver.so symlink to the actual library (also in the same directories). So on the one hand libvserver somehow invades util-vserver's namespace, since clearly util-vserver's libvserver.so was there first. OTOH util-vserver's library isn't actually used by anything else then util-vserver AFAICS, so it could probably live in /usr/lib/util-vserver. I think this would be a nice and clean solution. Another option would be to drop libvserver.so (only the symlink, not the library itself) from the util-vserver .deb. The plain .so should only be used for building software against the library anyway, and since there is no such software AFAIK, it's useless. It stays the problem that there would be 2 libs in /usr/lib with the same name, different so-versions, but with different origin and authors. I don't think this as such a nice situation in the long run, because I think ther will be more of the problems we already have. Eg. what happens if Enrico descides (for whatever strange reason, since there are no users of the library) to increase the so-version.. Yet another thing would be to rename libvserver, I but I guess Benedikt wouldn't be too glad about this. What are your opinions on this? Cheers, Christian 'Greek0' Aichinger signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
Re: [Vserver] File clash between libvserver and util-vserver: libvserver.so
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 00:27, Christian Aichinger wrote: util-vserver should be known well enough, libvserver is a project started by Benedikt Boehm in the time when Enrico was away. It provides an interface to the vserver-patched kernel. Homepage of libvserver: http://dev.croup.de/proj/libvserver/wiki Libvserver provides a shared object, libvserver.so.1, while util-vserver provides libvserver.so.0. Those two file have different origins, don't share code and have different APIs. We first hit a problem with the libvserver Debian package (unofficial, provided by Balint Laszlo Biller), which was not installable in parallel with the util-vserver package (the official one), since they both contained a libvserver.so symlink to the actual library (also in the same directories). So on the one hand libvserver somehow invades util-vserver's namespace, since clearly util-vserver's libvserver.so was there first. OTOH util-vserver's library isn't actually used by anything else then util-vserver AFAICS, so it could probably live in /usr/lib/util-vserver. I think this would be a nice and clean solution. Another option would be to drop libvserver.so (only the symlink, not the library itself) from the util-vserver .deb. The plain .so should only be used for building software against the library anyway, and since there is no such software AFAIK, it's useless. It stays the problem that there would be 2 libs in /usr/lib with the same name, different so-versions, but with different origin and authors. I don't think this as such a nice situation in the long run, because I think ther will be more of the problems we already have. Eg. what happens if Enrico descides (for whatever strange reason, since there are no users of the library) to increase the so-version.. Yet another thing would be to rename libvserver, I but I guess Benedikt wouldn't be too glad about this. i'm not against it if someone has a _better_ name ;) What are your opinions on this? Cheers, Christian 'Greek0' Aichinger ___ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
