Versioning preloader

[Christopher Meng]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Pranav Kant <pranav913 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am packaging proxychains-ng[1] which make use of the .so file by its
> preloader only, and is not for any usable development. Hence, the
> upstream maintainer does not want[2] to version this .so file.
>
> To inhibit the rpmlint's unversioned so file warning, I have currently
> written a patch, and making use of it while packaging. But, I was
> wondering of any other alternatives that we might have here.
>
> Any ideas ? Or should I stick with the patch ?

Patch it to versioned is wrong beause this software will neither work
nor be dependency-clean. You should put it underneath
/usr/lib%{?__isa_bits}/%{name}, it's the common solution.

Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

http://cicku.me