[csw-maintainers] BerkeleyDB upgrade

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 23 de Julho de 2010 08:18, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> escreveu:
> No dia 22 de Julho de 2010 20:20, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> escreveu:
>> I'm not sure I understand why you are writing this. So, I will add
>> more information and hopefully clear things up.
>>
>> First off, let me say that the existing library search is not
>> "perfect". It does not cover all possible library search cases.
>> However, it does cover a particular set of interest very well:
>>
>> If a library has a unique "SONAME", then it will tell you fairly
>> accurately which packages have something depending on that SONAME.
>>
>> Please note: pure "SONAME".  Which is a standalone filename, that has
>> no RPATH component to it.o
>>
>> So, since dbd4.7 does have a unique SONAME of libdb-47.so, it
>> accurately tells us which packages need that library.  Which I thought
>> was the original question.
>
> Close, but not exactly.  The original question was: "can we retire
> CSWbdb?"  The follow up question was "which packages would break if
> the /opt/csw/lib/libdb-4.7.so symlink were removed?"
>
> The same SONAME is currently provided by two paths, and we're looking
> for packages with binaries that meet two criteria:
>
> 1. need libdb-47.so
> 2. don't have /opt/csw/bdb47/lib in the RPATH

I've examined the packages and here are the two packages that would
break if CSWbdb were removed:

CSWap2modperl
CSWmodperl

Maciej