EPEL Armadillo 4.320.0 update broke gdal and PostGIS

[Devrim Gündüz]

Hi,

The latest armadillo update on EPEL broke gdal and PostGIS on PostgreSQL
RPM repository. I tried to rebuild gdal 1.9.2 with new armadillo, and
getting build errors. Any chance to revert this update?

Regards,

[Ryan Curtin]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 07:38:21PM +0300, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The latest armadillo update on EPEL broke gdal and PostGIS on PostgreSQL
> RPM repository. I tried to rebuild gdal 1.9.2 with new armadillo, and
> getting build errors. Any chance to revert this update?

I was asked to push Armadillo 4.x for some group who was using it, and
it should be reverse compatible, so I am confused about why you are
getting problems.  The rebuild should not have any issue.  Could you
post a link to the build log so I can decide what the best thing to do
here is?

Thanks,

Ryan

[Orion Poplawski]

On 08/08/2014 10:43 AM, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 07:38:21PM +0300, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The latest armadillo update on EPEL broke gdal and PostGIS on PostgreSQL
> > RPM repository. I tried to rebuild gdal 1.9.2 with new armadillo, and
> > getting build errors. Any chance to revert this update?
>
> I was asked to push Armadillo 4.x for some group who was using it, and
> it should be reverse compatible, so I am confused about why you are
> getting problems.  The rebuild should not have any issue.  Could you
> post a link to the build log so I can decide what the best thing to do
> here is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan

Just to be explicit - armadillo in EPEL6 was updated from 
armadillo-3.800.2-1.el6 to armadillo-4.320.0-1.el6 which involves a 
soname bump and lots of changes:

http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/armadillo.html

The project uses major version bumps to indicate API/ABI incompatibility:

http://arma.sourceforge.net/faq.html

Except for exceptional circumstances this is forbidden in EPEL.

[Susi Lehtola]

On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:17:10 -0600
Orion Poplawski  wrote:
> On 08/08/2014 10:43 AM, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 07:38:21PM +0300, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The latest armadillo update on EPEL broke gdal and PostGIS on
> > > PostgreSQL RPM repository. I tried to rebuild gdal 1.9.2 with new
> > > armadillo, and getting build errors. Any chance to revert this
> > > update?
> >
> > I was asked to push Armadillo 4.x for some group who was using it,
> > and it should be reverse compatible, so I am confused about why you
> > are getting problems.  The rebuild should not have any issue.
> > Could you post a link to the build log so I can decide what the
> > best thing to do here is?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ryan
>
> Just to be explicit - armadillo in EPEL6 was updated from 
> armadillo-3.800.2-1.el6 to armadillo-4.320.0-1.el6 which involves a 
> soname bump and lots of changes:
>
> http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/armadillo.html
>
> The project uses major version bumps to indicate API/ABI
> incompatibility:
>
> http://arma.sourceforge.net/faq.html
>
> Except for exceptional circumstances this is forbidden in EPEL.

I still don't understand why the Armadillo package ships a library,
since Armadillo is just a C++ template library...