Is Rawhide supposed to be useful?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue May 10 20:54:20 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22:37AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > The resources have been put in, there are ABI checks in the RPMs but as ajax
> > said, they don't work until the ABI is bumped upstream.
> I'm thinking about making the xserver package export ABI majors of 
> md5sums of, well, something, whenever the build is of a git snap instead 
> of a released build.  Possibly md5sums of the verbose output of pahole 
> or something.  It'd give some funny-looking requires strings, but it's 
> no more distasteful than what ocaml puts us through.

That would be awesome. Thank you very much. Because, y'know, having a useful
rawhide _is_ good. :)

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences


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