Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932571AbZKDUmK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:42:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932366AbZKDUmJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:42:09 -0500 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:54495 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932356AbZKDUmI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:42:08 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Martin Nybo Andersen , Alan Cox , "Ryan C. Gordon" , =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: package managers [was: FatELF patches...] In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:08:01 +0100." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20091104165407.1481bc29@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200911041848.48721.tweek@tweek.dk> <22108.1257364949@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1257367314_3622P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:41:55 -0500 Message-ID: <23950.1257367315@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 128.173.14.107 turing-police.cc.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Info: (0) X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=vivi.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020201.4AF1E713.01A8,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2009-07-29 21:33:33, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1557 Lines: 44 --==_Exmh_1257367314_3622P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:08:01 +0100, Mikulas Patocka said: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > > On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:46:44 +0100, Mikulas Patocka said: > > > > > When I did it (from Etch to Lenny), two programs that I have compiled > > > manually ("vim" and "links") stopped working because Etch and Lenny have > > > binary-incompatible libgpm. > > > > > > If some library cannot keep binary compatibility, it should be linked > > > staticaly, dynamic version shouldn't even exists on the system --- so tha t > > > no one can create incompatible binaries. > > > > No, all they need to do is bump the .so version number. > > That's what Debian did. Obviously, I can extract the old library from the > old package. But non-technical desktop user can't. But the non-technical user probably wouldn't have hand-compiled vim and links either, so how would they get into that situation? --==_Exmh_1257367314_3622P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFK8ecScC3lWbTT17ARAufiAJ4t16XWtwYJtGKy5M8FnuCdYdLiZQCfQZXJ EJEX0dQiGmxsHRLtD44QaZY= =g/a3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1257367314_3622P-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/