On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:06:56PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The Hurds ldconfig is just a link to /bin/true, to make Debian postinst > > scripts happy. I don't know why ldconfig is needed on Linux, it is not > > required on the Hurd, as all packages are required to have appropriate > > symlinks. > > Oh, and these symlinks have to be maintained by hand? What's the point?
They should be maintained by dpkg. If they aren't, it's a bug. The point is that dpkg should keep control of them, I think (otherways you might end up with dangling symlinks. We don't call ldconfig in postrm usually). > FWIW, I've seen packages generate the symlinks in debian/$PKG/usr/lib > with the help of "ldconfig -n". These will silently break when built > on the Hurd. This is a bug in the package then (it's a policy violation last time I checked). > > Now, if the symlink in the package is wrong, we have to fix that. > > AFAICS the original poster just got confused because he had libc0.2 > 2.1.3-x and libc0.2-dev 2.2-3 installed at the same time (a situation > that the dependencies allow). That would be a bug then. The dependencies in the Hurd packages should be fixed. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
