[vorbis] rc3 versus 1.0

[Jared Anderson]

I have symlinks to libvorbisfile.so.3 in /var/lib and have been using
xmms just fine for months now.

Cheers,
  J

* Eric Seppanen <eds at reric.net> [2003-01-10 10:09]:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:54:10PM -0500, ben-extra at MIT.EDU wrote:
> > I am sorry I wasn't clear - I didn't want to use dpkg, because of
> > dependencies on other libraries would (as I understand it) mean
> > upgrading chunks of my system to unstable.
> > 
> > But, I did find back-ported packages, apparently done by Norbert
> > Tretkowski.  I got them and they worked great; I am now running 1.0.0.
> > I did have to do a:
> > 
> > chipmunk:/usr/lib# ln -s libvorbisfile.so.3 libvorbisfile.so.0
> > 
> > to make xmms work.  I don't know if doing this will break something
> > else, but it works enough to let xmms run.   Packages are at:
> 
> I have been told that this (the symlinking you mention) is not a 
> technically sound solution. reference:
> http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200207/0375.html
> 
> You may have a similar problem with libvorbisenc.so.*
> 
> You might be better off keeping libvorbisfile.so.0 and libvorbisenc.so.0 
> from the rc3 package, so that anything originally linked against rc3 will 
> find the expected code.  But that still won't guarantee that old binaries 
> will work because anything linked against rc3 will get the old 
> libvorbisfile and libvorbisenc, but will dynamically link with the 1.0 
> libvorbis.  Nobody's ever told me whether such linking is safe, but it's 
> worked for me so far on Red Hat.
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