On Jul 18, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
Some day it may replace crypt(3), currently provided by glibc:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Replace_glibc_libcrypt_with_libxcrypt
I tried creating a package which would divert libc's libcrypt, but it
appears to be much harder than I thought.
Installing it would looke like:
1) libcrypt1.preinst diverts glibc's libcrypt.so.1
2) dpkg does things
3) dpkg installs libxcrypt's libcrypt.so.1
4) dpkg does more things
5) libcrypt1.postinst runs/triggers ldconfig
And this means that perl (a libcrypt dependency) would be broken
between
1 and 5 (or maybe 1 and 3): is this ever going to work?
But even if this worked correctly, glibc installs a libcrypt-N.NN.so,
whose exact name I expect changes among different releases.
Is there any way to implement all this safely?