Re: ldconfig warnings
rlb@cs.utexas.edu (Rob Browning) wrote on 23.12.97 in <[🔎] 87afdriyw6.fsf@nevermore.csres.utexas.edu>:
> "Adam P. Harris" <apharris@onshore.com> writes:
>
> > I think you're (a bit) unduly alarmed. From my interpretation, it's
> > not a bug to call `ldconfig' from postinst, it just shouldn't be
> > necessary. So why do it if it doesn't have to be done?
>
> You must call ldconfig from the postinst if you install shared
> libraries. This has come up recently several times, and the Debian
> policy manual is wrong [1]. We need to change the docs so that people
> will stop asking about this.
>
> In my experience, the warnings have come from dangling symlink in the
> lib directories. I'm not sure how they get there.
>
> [1] According to the ldso maintainer.
What we need most is a coherent explanation of what happens, why it
happens, and why the usual strategies are right or wrong.
Seems as if the ldso maintainer and the dpkg maintainer were the two best
candidates to providing that explanation.
MfG Kai
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