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SubjectRe: package managers [was: FatELF patches...]


On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:55:53 +0100, Mikulas Patocka said:
>
> > In some situations, the package manager is even more dangerous than manual
> > install. For example, if you are manually installing new alpha-quality
> > version of mplayer, and it is buggy, you end up with a working system with
> > broken mplayer. If you install alpha-quality version from some package
> > repository, it may need experimental version of libfoo, that needs
> > experimental version of libfee, that needs experimental version of glibc,
> > that contains a bug
>
> Total bullshit. You know *damned* well that if you were installing that
> alpha version of mplayer by hand, and it needed experimental libfoo,
> you'd go and build libfoo by hand, and then build the experimental
> libfee by hand, and then shoehorn in that glibc by hand, and bricked
> your system anyhow.

No, if I compile alpha version of mplayer by hand, it compiles and links
against whatever libraries I have on my system. If I pull it out of some
"testing" repository, it is already compiled and linked against libraries
in the same "testing" repository and it will load the system with crap.

That is the unfortunate reality of not having a binary standard :-(

> Or if you're arguing "you'd give up after seeing it needed an experimental
> libfoo", I'll counter "you'd hopefully think twice if yum said it was
> installing a experimental mplayer, and dragging in a whole chain of pre-reqs".

... or use --disable-libfoo if it insists on newer version and I don't
want to upgrade it. Or maybe the configure scripts detects on its own that
the library is too old will compile without new features. Or it uses
libfoo shipped with the sources.

But if the binary in the package is compiled with --enable-libfoo, there
is no other way. It forces libfoo upgrade.

Mikulas


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