Bug 98565

Summary:	mDNSResponder does not set SONAME field
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gergan Penkov <gpp666_999>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	Inclusion
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	98715
Attachments:	A patch for the soname-field

Description Gergan Penkov 2005-07-10 07:37:00 UTC

I don't know what is the Gentoo-soname policy, but one can read here Debians (http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#sonames) and after a little bit of exploration, I found a couple of packages with broken sonames. I'll file bugs for all of them with the corresponding patches. The information in the SONAME-field could be used for automatic reverse-dependancies retrieval and so on, without the use of ld-linux.so interpreter (which BTW has serious security implications - possibility for code execution - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html#AEN115). 
There is also a patch for the makefile(from http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/mDNSResponder-soname.patch?rev=1.1), which I have changed to apply on gentoo, which solves this problem for me.

Comment 1 Gergan Penkov 2005-07-10 07:42:31 UTC

Created attachment 63072 [details, diff]
A patch for the soname-field

Patch which will set the correct SONAME field in the shared libraries.

Comment 2 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-27 09:54:15 UTC

mDNSResponder-107.1 should have this issue fixed. 
 
Make sure you submit your changes to apple developers, thanks!