Packaging summit [LWN.net]

Packaging summit

Posted Oct 24, 2009 15:59 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: Packaging summit by nevyn
Parent article: A report from the RPM summit

>OpenSuSE has .x86_64 only, with some "duplicates" which have a suffix of -32bit. Again, a major difference. Yum certainly doesn't understand what the -32bit suffixes mean (so multilib_policy won't work).

One reason is simple: because rpm -Uhv openssl-1.0 would eliminate all packages of the same name with a lower version number.
And since it does not use yum (thankfully), there is nothing to worry about multilib_policy.

>Fedora names the libraries /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8k _and_ /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.8. OpenSuSE names the libraries /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8. Opps, any binaries linking to ssl can't move between distros. now because they have different .so numbers.

You could blame openssl for that, because they are not using the library versioning scheme "correctly" (by the definition of the libtool manual). Either libcrypto.so.X with proper X, or libcrypto-0.9.8.so(.0).

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