Changeset ed9b087 for chapter08/pkgmgt.xml

Timestamp:

06/05/2023 03:25:22 PM (11 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0

Children:

17c9658d

Parents:

e131bec (diff), 0f18f2b (diff)
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Message:

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/trunk' into xry111/arm64

File:

• chapter08/pkgmgt.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter08/pkgmgt.xml

@@ -85 +85 @@
       libraries until all the dependent packages have been recompiled.</para>
       </listitem>
+
+      <listitem><para>If a package is (directly or indirectly) linked to both
+      the old and new names of a shared library (for example, the package
+      links to both <filename class='libraryfile'>libfoo.so.2</filename> and
+      <filename class='libraryfile'>libbar.so.1</filename>, while the latter
+      links to <filename class='libraryfile'>libfoo.so.3</filename>), the
+      package may malfunction because the different revisions of the shared
+      library present incompatible definitions for some symbol names. This can be
+      caused by recompiling some, but not all, of the packages linked to the
+      old shared library after the package providing the shared library is
+      upgraded.  To avoid the issue, users will need to rebuild every package
+      linked to a shared library with an updated revision (e.g. libfoo.so.2 to
+      libfoo.so.3) as soon as possible.
+      </para></listitem>
 
       <listitem> <para>If a package containing a shared library is updated,
@@ -113 +127 @@
       library):</para>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grep -l  -e '<replaceable>libfoo</replaceable>.*deleted' /proc/*/maps |
-   tr -cd 0-9\\n | xargs -r ps u</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grep -l '<replaceable>libfoo</replaceable>.*deleted' /proc/*/maps | tr -cd 0-9\\n | xargs -r ps u</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>
@@ -120 +133 @@
         the system and it is linked to the updated library, you must
         restart the <command>sshd</command> service, then logout, login again,
-        and rerun the preceding ps command to confirm that nothing is still using the
+        and run the preceding command again to confirm that nothing is still using the
         deleted libraries.
       </para>