75331 – Prelink guide recommends unnecessary option

Bug 75331 - Prelink guide recommends unnecessary option

Summary: Prelink guide recommends unnecessary option

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Websites
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-...
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Reported:	2004-12-22 09:16 UTC by Jakob Schiotz
Modified:	2005-02-05 05:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jakob Schiotz 2004-12-22 09:16:14 UTC

The prelinking guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml recommends that the prelink command is being run with the -f switch to force re-prelinking of already prelinked binaries.  Apparently, this is to work around a bug in prelink, causing it to abort when meeting an already prelinked binary which depends on a library that has been changed.  It looks like this bug is fixed, and the -f flag will just increase prelinking times dramatically.  Without that option, one could prelink in a cron job.



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Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-05 05:45:33 UTC

Resolved in CVS. Thanks for noticing!