rawhide report: 20100216 changes

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:07:52AM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 16:17 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 20:09 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:06:16PM +0000, Rawhide Report wrote:
> > > > > 	1:libguestfs-1.0.84-1.fc13.i686 requires /lib/libdevmapper-event-lvm2snapshot.so.2.02
> > > > > 	1:libguestfs-1.0.84-1.fc13.i686 requires /lib/libntfs-3g.so.73
> > > > > 	1:libguestfs-1.0.84-1.fc13.i686 requires /lib/libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so.2.02
> > > > > 	1:libguestfs-1.0.84-1.fc13.i686 requires /lib/libntfs-3g.so.73.0.0
> > > > 
> > > > Fixed already.  Is there going to be a freeze on sonames at
> > > > some point?
> > > 
> > > We don't necessarily have a soname freeze.  I kind of wish we did, but
> > > I'm sure that'd be met with lots of loud yelling.
> > 
> > Looking at these requirements, your package is set up such that it will
> > fail even if the soname doesn't change (but the filename does).
> > 
> > That seems needlessly fragile.
> 
> libguestfs is using its own find-requires script, which is what appears
> to be generating those.  From a quick look it's not clear whether it
> really needs exactly those files or whether just a soname match would be
> good enough.  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/547496 seems to be the relevant
> bug.

It really does require those exact files.  It's not linking, it's
composing an appliance on the fly using files taken from the host:

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/supermin-appliance-now-in-febootstrap/

> In general we should probably carp about file reqs that look like DSO
> deps, especially since rpm has %{isa} now.  But this case might be
> special.

This isn't helpful.

Rich.

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