On 10 February 2015 at 22:19, Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> On 02/11/2015 02:34 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>>
>> On 10 February 2015 at 10:44, Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've just booted linux after getting home from work, started firefox and
>>> checked the plugins and firefox is now showing the right version, seems
>>> that
>>> I had to reboot linux for the rpm installation and the symlinks to take
>>> effect. On reflection maybe the ldconfig cache was causing issues as this
>>> would have been refreshed with the reboot.
>>>
>>>
>> What refreshes the ldconfig cache at boot? (I don't think there's
>> anything that changes that at boot, but I could be wrong).
>
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding things but I thought that ldconfig was run every
> boot, otherwise updated versions of modules placed in those directories
> would never be used because they were in the cash, unless of coarse there is
> a post install script in every package that installed modules into
> directories that could be in the case to actually run ldconfig?
>
>

AFAIK ldconfig isn't run at every boot. Every RPM package that
contains shared libraries runs ldconfig as part of its post install
scripts.

Note that /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so isn't added to the
ldconfig cache, I am not a dev but this isn't really a shared library
like say /lib64/libgtk-3.so.0 . (ldconfig search certain paths for
shared libraries to add to the cache, and /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/
isn't in that path).

Have a good day.

-- 
Ahmad Samir
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