[csw-maintainers] Package incompatibility, any suggestions?

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:22:35PM +0000, James Lee wrote:
> On 24/03/09, 16:13:24, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote regarding Re: 
> > and on TOP of that, I think our build machines will have to "break" the
> > package, and do
> 
> > rm /opt/csw/lib/libnet.so
> > ln -s libnet.so.1 /opt/csw/lib/libnet.so
> 
> It's very, very nasty because it will break anyone else trying to build,
> either in ignorance of your hack or if trying to run and build on the
> same machine.

waitwhat?

it wont break anyone else trying to build. it will rather, force them to
use the new libnet.

> Has no one made an elf header editor?
> 

yes. but it usually requires that the old string be "as long as or longer
than" the new string.
we fail in that criteria.