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Re: Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:09:56PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Have a look at the following RPM output:
>> $ rpm -q --requires bash
>> /bin/sh
>> ld-linux.so.2
>> libc.so.6
>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
>> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
>> libdl.so.2
>> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)
>> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)
>> libhistory.so.4
>> libncurses.so.5
>> libreadline.so.4
>
> Further more, glibc rpm can be packaged so that it explicitely does not
> provide *(GLIBC_PRIVATE) symbol versions. This way if somebody built an rpm
> containing stuff against private interfaces, he could not install it
> without noticing.
That's devil - but I like it ;-)
> I think GLIBC_PRIV is a good idea.
Do you see any problems implementing this? This is a glibc 2.3 issue
IMO but we should discuss whether it can be done or not.
Andreas
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