Bug 47174
| Summary: | libpcap-0.4-39.i386.rpm does not contain shared library libpcap.so.0 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Kevin Range <range006> |
| Component: | tcpdump | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | dr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-07-19 15:25:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Kevin Range
2001-07-03 20:22:10 UTC
Indeed. I missed this shared lib ten minutes ago, too... There is no libpcap.so target in the Makefile of the official libpcap tarball. I took the liberty of reopening this bug as an enhancement. While it may be true that "there is no libpcap.so target in the Makefile of the official libpcap tarball", Linux Mandrake includes one in their libpcap packages. As a matter of fact, I am using their libpcap-0.5-2mdk RPM right now. If you would like I can take a look at their source RPM and let you know how they got a shared library out of it. I really like RedHat Linux much more than Mandrake, and I would hate to see such a simple thing as this be a check for Mandrake and not for RedHat. Especially since it is all Open Source/Free Software anyway, right? I mean, we are supposed to be cross pollinating and sharing ideas and enhancements right? no problem. I can quickhack produce some shared library, too. ;) The problem is: there is no official major.minor number for that library. OK, I can take the tarball version, but that does not assure the correct major/minor philosophie of library interfaces. > there is no official major.minor number for that library
hmm... a subtlety I had overlooked. It seems that Mandrake just uses the
tarball version, but I can see how that could potentially be problematic.
Maybe this should be taken up with the libpcap people. For all we know they
could be numbering their tarballs in just such a way as to avoid this issue.
Or maybe they should start doing that...
The real question is what to do now: hack it, or leave it. I say hack it. It
won't be a problem until libpcap jumps to 1.x. Until then somebody can try to
convince them to address this issue if they already haven't, and we RedHat users
aren't left out in the cold.
libpcap-0.6.2-7.i386.rpm |