[Mageia-dev] *.so files are text in some packages messing up provides (was: Re: abrt+libreport)

Sun Dec 16 12:11:48 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 15/12/12 22:05 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 12/12/12 10:38 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On 11 December 2012 17:52, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>> I have updated versions of these packages (part of my /var/run updates)
+>>> locally. Can I submit them? It updates both to the latest upstream, but
+>>> I have no real way to test it properly.
+>>
+>> You could "kill -11" some rendom gtk+ appp (eg: gedit) and see if you
+>> get a segfault dialog.
+> 
+> OK, so I downgraded to the current version and tried this and didn't get
+> any dialogs...
+> 
+> So for want of any better testing, I've just pushed my updated versions
+> for now.
+> 
+> Fingers crossed it didn't make things worse :)
+
+OK, so this is happending:
+
+[root at jimmy ~]# urpmi "pkgconfig(libreport-web)"
+A requested package cannot be installed:
+lib64report-web-devel-2.0.19-1.mga3.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied
+devel(libxmlrpc_client(64bit)))
+Continue installation anyway? (Y/n)
+
+
+It turns out that "devel(libxmlrpc_client(64bit)))" is not provided by
+lib64xmlrpc-c-devel. Looking closer this is because when building that
+package, objdump does not recognise the file file format and thus
+doesn't add provides. Looking closer it appears the files are txt not
+symlinks:
+
+[colin at jimmy xmlrpc-c]$ cat /usr/lib64/libxmlrpc_server.so
+/* GNU ld script */
+INPUT(/usr/lib64/libxmlrpc_server.so.3
+AS_NEEDED(/usr/lib64/libxmlrpc.so.3 /usr/lib64/libxmlrpc_util.so.3))
+
+
+So the question is, should they just be fixed to be symlinks or should
+we teach the rpm script the ability to extract info from these these GNU
+ld scripts?
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
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