FreeTDS

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:53:51 +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:

> Ok, that would mean (for example)

"that" here refers to nothing as long as you don't quote anything.
Please avoid top-posting.

> main package ships *only* libct.so.2.0.0, nothing more

Take a look at your package. There are also softlinks of the form
lib*.so.$MAJOR_VERSION in the main package, with $MAJOR_VERSION
usually being the current API version:

lrwxrwxrwx root  root        14 /usr/lib/freetds/libct.so.2

For libraries in run-time linker's search path, ldconfig would create
and update these links. But nevertheless, packages ought to include
them, so RPM database queries work.

> and the devel package would ship the symlink libct.so to libct.so.2.0.0

Yes.

> After one compiled e.g. php, php *knows* it needs libct.so.2.0.0 and
> therefore doesn't need the symlink to libct.so anymore, and the devel
> could be whiped away after all.
> 
> Am I right ?

Well, what results do you get after compiling software which depends
on your package? ;)