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 [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
