Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU desired libiscsi.so clashes with libiscsi.so from iscsi-initiator-utils

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 03:54:19PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 03.03.2012 15:15, Andreas Färber wrote:
> > Am 03.03.2012 07:43, schrieb ronnie sahlberg:
> >> Yes,
> >>
> >> Very unfortuante since libiscsi is such a nice name for a
> >> multiplatform library what even works on win32 :-(
> >>
> >> I have so renamed it to libiscsiclient  and sent a patch to qemu to
> >> this list to use -liscsiclient instead of -liscsi
> > 
> > Mind letting us know which library exactly this clashes with (URL)?
> > According to Hannes there was no clash on openSUSE (which I would call a
> > standard Linux distro as well), so it sounded like a Fedora-specific
> > packaging problem to him.
> 
> It looks like iscsi-initiator-utils package in fedora is built using
> shared libiscsi which appears to be package-specific, e.g.

Yes, it is the iscsi-initiator-utils package

> I'd rename _that_ library to be libiscsi-initiator-utils.so, to
> reflect the name of the package in question, since it - again -
> _appears_ to be package-specific.

That's not really practical at this time, since it has been shipped this
way for years now, and in any case ronnie has already been good enough
to rename to libiscsiclient to avoid the potential ambiguity.

Regards,
Daniel
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