Slackware-current ChangeLog (2018-12-28)

Fri Dec 28 00:23:43 UTC 2018

  • a/aaa_elflibs-15.0-i586-3.txz
    Moved libsigsegv.so.2 from /usr/lib{,64} to /lib{,64}.
    Upgraded: libcap.so.2.26, libelf-0.175.so, libfuse.so.2.9.8,
    libexpat.so.1.6.8, libglib-2.0.so.0.5800.2, libgmodule-2.0.so.0.5800.2,
    libgobject-2.0.so.0.5800.2, libgthread-2.0.so.0.5800.2, libjpeg.so.62.3.0,
    liblber-2.4.so.2.10.10, libldap-2.4.so.2.10.10, libpng16.so.16.36.0,
    libstdc++.so.6.0.25, libtdb.so.1.3.16, libtiff.so.5.4.0,
    libtiffxx.so.5.4.0, libturbojpeg.so.0.2.0.
  • l/libsigsegv-2.12-i586-3.txz
    Moved shared library into /lib{,64} to avoid problems when /usr is on a
    separate partition. Thanks to TommyC7.
    But please note: that has never been a recommended configuration (it was
    always a bad idea prone to corner-case bugs), and with basically everyone
    else moving everything into /usr, no upstream is developing with this
    scenario in mind these days. Some of the problems caused by separate /usr
    are simply not possible to fix in a straightforward fashion. Consider it a
    completely unsupported configuration choice. While it's not my style to
    make the installer refuse to allow it, I won't be bending over backwards
    to try to fix bugs related to this in the future. If I recall properly,
    the original rationale was to make it possible for /usr to reside on a
    shared network partition, which might have made sense back when 40MB was
    a typical hard drive size. I can think of no good rationale now (and no,
    I don't think making /usr read-only helps security in any tangible way).
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  • by Giuseppe Di Terlizzi