On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 04:51:28PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> In the file ("hostfiles") that tells us what to copy in from the host
> system we do use wildcards. But we only wildcard the minor and
> release numbers, not the soname major number, since an soname bump
> probably implies some sort of major change which requires human
> attention.

For example:

$ grep pcre appliance/initramfs.fedora-11.x86_64.supermin.hostfiles
./lib64/libpcre.so.0.*
./lib64/libpcre.so.0
./usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0.*
./usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0
./usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0
./usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0.*
./usr/bin/pcretest
./usr/bin/pcregrep

Rich.

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Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> In the file ("hostfiles") that tells us what to copy in from the host
> system we do use wildcards. But we only wildcard the minor and
> release numbers, not the soname major number, since an soname bump
> probably implies some sort of major change which requires human
> attention.

It shouldn't matter at all for your appliance builder.

IMHO, you should just wildcard everything and drop the file dependencies.
Much less work for you, much fewer broken dependencies, just a small risk of
breakage which isn't that big a deal (much better than having the package
uninstallable every other day as it is now).

Kevin Kofler

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