Moving libcrypto.so.* back to /lib

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Fri Apr 9 13:44:55 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 10:17 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> So I got convinced that libcrypto.so.* should be moved back to /lib in
> the https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559953 The libssl.so.*
> will stay in /usr/lib though.
> 
> I will do that change in F14 packages. Till Maas asked me for this
> change also in F13, but I am a little hesitant to do this as I am afraid
> of regressions. Do you think this change could break things in F13?

It shouldn't.  DSO lookup is by soname, not by path.

The only thing that could break is if a package had a file dependency on
the old path.  Which is a ragingly stupid thing to do, so anyone it does
break deserves it.

- ajax
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