fedora question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:13 -0600, Myles Green wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:43:03 +0200
> Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 02:37 -0600, Myles Green wrote:
> > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:48:46 -0500 (EST)
> > > Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > A question for the Fedora users:
> > > > >
> > > > > Does Fedora come with a static version of libresmgr? Or only
> > > > > dynamic?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know what libresmgr is, but it doesn't exist on any of my FC5 
> > > > systems.
> > >  
> > > I just did a 'yum search libresmgr' on the development repos (AKA
> > > Rawhide) which turned up nothing, neither did a 'whatprovides'. What is
> > > it? {o_O}
> > 
> > A hardware information system. It is a program interface for programs
> > that need to locate hardware. It is often used when trying to locate,
> > say, usb devices in a compiled program. The package may be called
> > 'resmgr'. I think it is available on many distributions. But it is not
> > required and so may not be installed. I suspect there is a Fedora
> > version.
> 
> OK, thanks for the explanation of what it is. As you suggest, it's not
> installed on my system - or at least there's nothing under /lib
> or /usr/lib. I repeated the searches I did earlier using "resmgr" and the
> first one turned up empty but the second (yum whatprovides resmgr) has
> turned up 2 references to selinux-policy:
> 
> selinux-policy.noarch	2.3.9-3	installed 
> Matched from:
> /usr/share/doc/selinux-policy-2.3.9/html/services_resmgr.html
> 
> selinux-policy-devel.noarch	2.3.9-3	development 
> Matched from:
> /usr/share/selinux/devel/include/services/resmgr.if
> 
> Neither one sounds to me like what you're looking for but I'll send you the
> files off-list if you'd like...

Not necessary. I don't need the files. I just doubt their existence. On
thing about resmgr is that it hides the distribution dependent parts
behind a set API. To make this work, you really need to run the resmgr
that comes with the system the code runs on. So a static version seems a
very odd thing. It does not solve the problem of users not having the
package required.

I did a search on rpm.pbone.net and found packages for SUSE and
Mandrake. So maybe resmgr is not widely accepted. But that makes this
developer's use of a static version on Fedora even more odd.

> 
> HTH, Myles
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