Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:24:12 +0100 | From | "Alessandro Suardi" <> | Subject | Re: util-linux: orphan |
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On 12/27/06, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 07:08:43PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >I saw that the current Fedora already dynamically links /bin/mount > > >against /usr/lib/libblkid.so. This obviously does not work if > > >/usr is a separate partition that needs to be mounted with /bin/mount. > > >I also had problems with selinux claiming I had no right to access > > >libblkid, which meant that the root fs could not be remounted r/w. > > > > > >I'd suggest that you make sure that mount always gets statically linked > > >against libblkid to avoid these problems. > > > > That's a pretty silly statement. The real issue is that any library > > needed by binaries in /bin or /sbin should live in /lib, not /usr/lib. > > From a Debian unstable system: > > think:~# ldd /bin/mount > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) > libblkid.so.1 => /lib/libblkid.so.1 (0xb7f23000) > libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb7f20000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7ddf000) > libdevmapper.so.1.02 => /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02 (0xb7dcd000) > libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb7db8000) > libsepol.so.1 => /lib/libsepol.so.1 (0xb7d77000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7d61000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f3f000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7d5d000) > > ... and in fact the e2fsprogs's configure program normally installs > the critical libraries used by mount, fsck, e2fsck, including the > blkid and uuid libraries, in /lib, not /usr/lib. If blkid is being > installed in /usr/lib in Fedora, someone must have gone out of their > way to override e2fsprogs' defaults, which are designed to do the > right things by default. (Basically, because I generally don't trust > the choices made by distributions' packaging engineers, having been > burned more than once. :-) > > - Ted
FC6-current for i386 has it right:
[root@sandman ~]# rpm -qf /bin/mount util-linux-2.13-0.45.3.fc6 [root@sandman ~]# ldd /bin/mount linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f63000) libblkid.so.1 => /lib/libblkid.so.1 (0x4b607000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x4b601000) libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0x49ce5000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00aec000) libdevmapper.so.1.02 => /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02 (0x49cfe000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00c54000) libsepol.so.1 => /lib/libsepol.so.1 (0x4a603000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0011d000)
--alessandro
"...when I get it, I _get_ it"
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