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The utility closet Ellis had inherited and lived with for 17 years had been a cesspool of hazards to life and limb, a collection of tangible WTFs that had everyone asking an uncaring god, "What were they thinking?"
Every contractor who'd ever had to perform any amount of work in there had come away appalled. Many had even called over their buddies to come and see the stunning mess for themselves:
Jon supports some software that's been around long enough that the first versions of the software ran on, and I quote, "homegrown OS". They've long since migrated to Linux, and in the process much of their software remained the same. Many of the libraries that make up their application haven't been touched in decades. Because of this, they don't really think too much about how they version libraries; when they deploy they always deploy the file as mylib.so.1.0. Their RPM post-install scriptlet does an ldconfig after each deployment to get the symlinks updated.
For those not deep into Linux library management, a brief translation: shared libraries in Linux are .so files. ldconfig is a library manager, which finds the "correct" versions of the libraries you have installed and creates symbolic links to standard locations, so that applications which depend on those libraries can load them.
Jan 26