[oe] [RFC] Fix udev pulling in libvolume-id-dev

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Thu Jan 15 11:10:39 UTC 2009


On 15-01-09 08:41, Khem Raj wrote:
> On (15/01/09 07:56), Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 15-01-09 07:14, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>
>>> libvolume-id-dev does not provide the actual .so library, but it contains a
>>> symlink in /usr/lib, which points to /lib/libvolume.so.0 (the host one!)
>>> instead of ../../lib/ one...
>> That's the intended behaviours, since installing the packages will have
>> it point to ${libdir}/libvolume.so.0 on your device. I'm not sure if we
>> want to patch every package to use relative symlinks.
>
> We would use -dev packages on staged area normally to compile other apps
> depending on a given packge if we do not fix the symlink I think it will
> try to link to wrong library.

We don't use the -dev packages to populate staging :) I keep trying to 
convince Richard that we should use them, but he keeps coming up with 
good reasons not to do so :)

regards,

Koen





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