Shared library permissions in Debian-land and Red Hat-land

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> If we're going to make changes here I would really to see the heuristic
> for 2 changed from is it executable to does it live under /lib[64] or
> /usr/lib[64]. This will remove the need to add tons of provides filters
> to perl or python packages which contain some native bits.
>
> Yes this will break the provides generation for packages which install
> real / normal libraries under a different dir.
I guess that checking if the package also installs a config file into
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and if it does, also checking the directories setup
in the config file, would handle most of these cases.
    Mirek