[csw-maintainers] Package incompatibility, any suggestions?

Roger Håkansson hson at opencsw.org
Tue Mar 24 21:45:14 CET 2009


James Lee wrote:
> Won't the SONAME handle this?
> 
> $ dump -Lv /opt/csw/lib/libnet.so | grep -c SONAME
> 0
> 
> Sadly not yet.  Lib needs versioned SONAME set.
> 
> Others have packed both the old and new libs in the new package and let
> SONAME do its stuff.
> 
> People wanting to continue building to the old API can install the old
> package.

Well, the problem is that since the API have changed, so has the include 
files...



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