[crossfire] Is the deposit bug on the bank PYò0script ever going to get fixed?

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Sebastian Andersson wrote:

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      Yes LD_PRELOAD will do this.  It is nice to get out of a tight spot but a
     
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      poor long term solution (except in the example below :)
     
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      On Debian, the really nice debootstrap utility can be used for this.
     
     
Yes this is a great utility for making a chrooted environment (and lots of 
other purposes too- UML environments for example).

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      I've come to the conclusion the best method is to package the s/w with
     
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      binary libraries that are guaranteed to work with the s/w.  These are the
     
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      fallback libs.
     
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      It a bit of a problem for libraries that have a lot of external files
     
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      that it depends on though (like python's /usr/lib/python*/ files),
     
     
What files are you thinking of?  They shoudn't rely on anything except 
other libs.  I just did a strings on /usr/lib/libpython on this box and it 
didn't reveal any dependencies.

If the libs really do rely on external files then keep a seperate copy of 
those as well.  A chroot may be best to keep everything in order in this 
case.

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      the distribution then starts to be really large and one often has to
     
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      configure/change and rebuild those libraries so they look for their
     
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      files in the right place.
     
     
With disks as large as they are today I don't see the disk space issue as 
a big problem.  Afterall if the libs rely on external files then a 
staticaly linked binary would rely on them as well (unless the reliance 
was only on other libs that were themselves statically linked in).

Anyway, too OT I guess :)

Rob

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