Bug 109529 - rpm dynamically linked
Summary: rpm dynamically linked
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-09 01:56 UTC by Bernie Innocenti
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-11-10 17:47:14 UTC
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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.
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