From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: Symbolic link 'libcrack.so.2' to 'libcrack.so.2.7' is being created while building package but isn't being created while creating binary package Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create directory tree needed for RPM-tool 2. rpm -i --rcfile WORK_DIR/rpmrc cracklib-2.7-12.src.rpm 3. rpm -bb --rcfile WORK_DIR/rpmrc WORK_DIR/SPECS/cracklib.spec 4. cd WORK_DIR/RPMS/i386 5. rpm2cpio cracklib-2.7-12.i386.rpm | cpio -idmuv --no-absolute-filenames 6. rpm2cpio cracklib-dicts-2.7-12.i386.rpm | cpio -idmuv --no-absolute-filenames Actual Results: There is no 'libcrack.so.2' link in ./usr/lib Expected Results: link 'libcrack.so.2' to 'libcrack.so.2.7' should exist in built binary package Additional info: workaround: patch to cracklib/Makefile: --- cracklib/Makefile.orig Fri Jun 21 12:41:50 2002 +++ cracklib/Makefile Fri Jun 21 13:51:25 2002 @@ -24,5 +24,6 @@ install: $(LIB) crack.h install -m 755 $(LIB).$(VERSION) $(ROOT)$(libdir) - ln -sf $(LIB).$(VERSION) $(ROOT)$(libdir)/$(LIB) + ln -sf $(LIB).$(VERSION) $(ROOT)$(libdir)/$(LIB).$(MAJOR) + ln -sf $(LIB).$(MAJOR) $(ROOT)$(libdir)/$(LIB) install -m 644 crack.h $(ROOT)$(includedir)
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.