[csw-maintainers] When a shared library needs a data file

[Philip Brown]

On 1/18/11, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Your question about naming brings up an interesting point.  Perhaps
> the with magic.mgc shouldn't be named CSW<libraryname>-common, but
> CSW<libraryname>-<providedfilename>, which in our case would be
> CSWlibmagic-magic.  Potential options for naming:
>
> CSWlibmagic-common
> CSWlibmagic-magic


libmagic_magic
gets my vote.


> I'm not convinced whether it's better to provide magic.mgc in an
> isolated file.  We would still need a package for
> /opt/csw/share/man/man3/libmagic.3 and
> /opt/csw/share/man/man4/magic.4.  It should be neither CSWgfile, nor
> CSWlibmagic (deprecated), nor CSWlibmagic1 (libmagic.so.1 only), nor
> CSWlibmagic-magic (magic.mgc only).

I think we have a fairly clear existing "standard" on that already.
libmagic_doc