From: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Martin Nybo Andersen" <tweek@tweek.dk>,
"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>,
"Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: package managers [was: FatELF patches...]
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:08:01 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0911042104260.8785@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22108.1257364949@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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 that
> > 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.
Mikulas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-30 2:19 FatELF patches Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-30 5:42 ` Rayson Ho
2009-10-30 14:54 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-01 19:20 ` David Hagood
2009-11-01 20:28 ` Måns Rullgård
2009-11-01 20:59 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-01 21:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2009-11-01 21:35 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 4:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-02 15:14 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-03 14:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-03 18:30 ` Matt Thrailkill
2009-11-01 22:08 ` Rayson Ho
2009-11-02 1:17 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 3:27 ` Rayson Ho
2009-11-02 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 2:21 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 6:17 ` Julien BLACHE
2009-11-02 18:18 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 18:59 ` Julien BLACHE
2009-11-02 19:08 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-02 6:27 ` David Miller
2009-11-02 15:32 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 9:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 17:39 ` david
2009-11-02 17:44 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 19:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-02 20:11 ` david
2009-11-02 20:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-11-03 1:35 ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-11-02 15:40 ` Diego Calleja
2009-11-04 16:40 ` package managers [was: FatELF patches...] Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-04 17:25 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 17:48 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2009-11-04 18:46 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 19:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-04 20:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 20:27 ` david
2009-11-04 20:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 20:08 ` Mikulas Patocka [this message]
2009-11-04 20:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 21:11 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 21:32 ` kevin granade
2009-11-04 22:05 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-04 22:19 ` Marcin Letyns
2009-11-04 22:28 ` david
2009-11-04 22:43 ` Martin Nybo Andersen
2009-11-04 23:55 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-05 2:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-05 2:52 ` Mikulas Patocka
[not found] ` <f42384a10911050134t37a0a812hd85ff5541423dc9f@mail.gmail.com>
2009-11-05 9:35 ` Fwd: " Marcin Letyns
2009-11-10 11:40 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-04 23:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-05 0:05 ` Mikulas Patocka
2009-11-10 11:57 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-04 17:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-11-04 20:28 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 17:52 ` FatELF patches Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-02 18:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 20:13 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-04 1:09 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-10 11:27 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-10 12:40 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-11-10 13:00 ` Enrico Weigelt
2009-11-10 13:19 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 16:11 ` Chris Adams
2009-11-01 20:40 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-11-10 10:04 ` Enrico Weigelt
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