On 17 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > Here is a plan on how to do so. It requires to modify dpkg but allows > complete compatibility and no breakage of binaries (building with > G++-2.95 would no longer work unless wrappers are written). > > 1. Create a new version of dpkg that does the following; > > In the postinst script it checks whether /usr/lib/g++-2.95 is present > and if it isn't it scans symbols in all libraries to determine their ABI > (symbols are mangled differently so this is possible) and moves all > libraries with g++-2.95 mangled names in /usr/lib/g++-2.95 and modifies > /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.list/shlibs accordingly. > Then it scans all binaries in the same ways and automatically builds > wrapper scripts that adjust LD_LIBRARY_PATH and modifies the .info files > accordingly. > > At every package installation, it checks whether the package to install > depends on either this new version of dpkg or libstdc++5 or if some > dependency depends on either. > If so, it installs it normally (checking ABIs wouldn't hurt, but it's > slow). > Otherwise it checks and moves libraries and binaries as above (before > installing it to avoid conflicts).
HAHAHAHAHA. No. .______. _|doogie|_ <-- dpkg hat
