Re: [PATCH v7 1/1] ldconfig: add --install option

"Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]> Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:50:06 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Organization	Gentoo Linux
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Am Mittwoch, 8. Juli 2026, 04:31:23 Japanische Normalzeit schrieb Adhemerval Zanella Netto:
> 
> On 07/07/26 16:05, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Adhemerval Zanella Netto <[email protected]> writes:
> >> On 30/06/26 18:28, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >>> Add --install option, which copies a pre-built ld.so.cache into place,
> >>> honoring the cache and root options and defaults.  This gives the user
> >>> a canonical "correct" way to install a pre-built cache without risk
> >>> of a program trying to load a partially-written file.
> >>>
> >>> Co-authored-by: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> This version looks good to me, thanks.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > I'm assuming this is a post-2.44 patch, yes?
> > 
> 
> It should be doable for 2.44 if Andreas is OK with this.
> 

It's small, well-separated, and doesnt affect existing operation. So yeah, I
dont see any problems.

Mostly I don't fully understand the use case yet, but that may be a problem 
behind *my* keyboard and is irrelevant for the release... 
Is the source file supposed to come from the live system (since it needs to 
know all installed libraries)? or from some other magic source?

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PD Dr. Andreas K. Hüttel
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Gentoo Linux developer 
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