rpmbuild FAIL while packaging symlinks

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Sam Varshavchik wrote, at 08/19/2007 10:06 PM +9:00:
> Michael Schwendt writes:
> 
>> On 19/08/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>>
>>> > ./libmylib.so.1 ln -s /usr/lib/libmylib.so.1 libmylib.so The
>>> > requirement is /usr/lib directory will have : libmylib.so.x
>>> > libmylib.so -> libmylib.so.x
>>>
>>> Throw out your ln command altogether.  Just place the .so in /usr/lib
>>> and run /sbin/ldconfig in %post.  It will make the symlinks according to
>>> the library soname.
>>
>> That is false advise, however, since you want to create all necessary
>> symlinks in the %install section in order to include them in the
>> %files section and the package. If you don't include the symlinks in
>> the package, but let ldconfig create them, the files don't belong to
>> any package, which is a packaging bug.
> 
> Really?
> 
> Maybe you should then file this bug against a few hundred or so Fedora 
> packages, that have been doing this for years.
> 
> $ rpm -q -a --scripts | grep 'install program' | grep ldconfig | wc -l
> 571
> 
> Nope, this is not a packaging bug. This is the correct way to package 
> libraries.

Creating symlink beforehand and calling ldconfig on %post and %postun
scriptlets are *BOTH* needed, as Michael already points out.

Mamoru