Bug 109529

Summary:	rpm dynamically linked
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bernie Innocenti <bernie+fedora>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Bernie Innocenti 2003-11-09 01:56:48 UTC

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Description of problem:
/bin/rpm is now dynamically linked against several
libraries, some of which are in /usr.

Even if this is intentional, I strongly recommend
reverting to a statically linked binary as in
RH8/RH9.

On one system, up2date crashed in the middle of
a big update, leaving an old version of
/bin/tls/libpthread.so along with several updated
binaries which were linked against new newer
glibc-2.3.2.

I was unable to run rpm to complete the upgrade,
turning a trivial problem into a hell.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.2.1-0.30

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ldd -r /bin/rpm

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-11-10 17:47:14 UTC

NPTL and TLS prevent static linking, there are legacy issues
with dlopen'ed modules.