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[opensuse] Why is package libpcap 0.94 contains library 0.93 !?!
  • From: "Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 02:15:51 +0100
  • Message-id: <7fac565a0704301815o781d1728pe8e69758273357bb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I have a one little question: WHAT THE HELL !?!?

openSUSE 10.2 contains package called "libpcap-0.9.4-30" but
internally it has a library of a previous version !
"/usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9.3" !!! Because of this some programs refuse
to run !

opensuse:/E/Lin-Install # rpm -ql libpcap
/usr/include/pcap-bpf.h
/usr/include/pcap-namedb.h
/usr/include/pcap.h
/usr/lib/libpcap.a
/usr/lib/libpcap.so
/usr/lib/libpcap.so.0
/usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9.3
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/INSTALL.txt
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README.Win32
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README.aix
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README.dag
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README.hpux
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README.linux
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README.macosx
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README.septel
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/README.tru64
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/TODO
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/pcap.html
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/pcap.txt
/usr/share/doc/packages/libpcap/pcap.xml
/usr/share/man/man3/pcap.3.gz

Futher testing shows me that this is the library, not a symlink, as I
thought before !

opensuse:/E/Lin-Install # file /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9.3
/usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9.3: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), stripped
opensuse:/E/Lin-Install # ll /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158960 2006-11-25 12:19 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9.3


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-Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
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