[oe] [oe-commits] Koen Kooi : initscripts: only run ldconfig on boot when ld.so. conf is present

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 10:08:19AM +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> at some point when oe was building images, it was unable to run ldconfig using
> qemu natively within the rootfs before converting to a file system image (ext2,
> jffs2, or tar etc.) and thus as a workaround to not being able to do this, it
> was run on boot to populate ld.so.cache. it's possible to do this now via qemu
> before packaging up the rootfs.
> 
> ooh wait. i found out...
> 
> /var/run/ld.so.cache... it's in /var/run ... which is /var/volatile - which is
> ramfs. which means it's not persistent. this... is a problem. well a problem
> for systems that can do persistent storage and modify the fs runtime (and keep
> the changes - ie anything using jffs2).
> 
> perhaps.. this is what needs changing - distros that have non-writable rootfs's
> use ldconfig on boot (makes sense now) and those with, do it at image creating
> time with qemu (and henceforth let the package manager handle it).

I personally wouldn't want to rely on qemu for this. I'm trying to avoid it 
for my setups so I wouldn't need to deal with its weirdness and support my 
developers. And currently I only had to disable locales generation to achive 
that peace of mind...

-- 
Denys