GnuTLS soname bump in rawhide

Dan Winship danw at redhat.com
Thu Feb 7 13:34:18 UTC 2013


On 02/07/2013 07:27 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The other potential impact is that gnutls no longer uses libgcrypt,
> but instead uses nettle.
> 
> This can impact apps that were using gnutls in a threaded environment
> because they probably have used 'gcry_control' to register a thread
> impl for gcrypt, to ensure that gnutls was thread safe.
> 
> So merely rebuilding applications may well not work & require some
> code changes. This will certainly impact libvirt builds.

You can just remove the gcry_control() calls; they've been unnecessary
since gnutls 2.11.0.

-- Dan



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