On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:11 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:11:33AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
In general it is not a problem, but I think that this should be avoided.
In most cases this is not a problem for RH/Fedora. But it is a problem outside of RH/Fedora, e.g. for 3rd party packages designed for parallel installation, containing DSOs with the same names as Fedora.
It has been already pointed out in lists, and in numerous package submissions (I always look for sane provides and for perl packages there are the 'usual bogusprovides on .so files'). I just have filled a bug against rpm:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224544
Another possible solution would be to avoid setting the SONAME for the files that are only to be dlopened. libtool always set the soname, and it seems to be the same for perl. Maybe this is where things should be fixed?
Nope, the bug is in rpmbuild rsp. redhat-rpm-config. They produce invalid results.
Ralf