Heads up: openssl and gnutls rebase in rawhide

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Thu Nov 29 15:21:08 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:07 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:40:20PM +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > I have decided to complete the dependency breakage which will be caused
> > by the openldap update because many packages which depend on openldap
> > libraries depend also on OpenSSL or GNUTLS. So to spare a few rebuild
> > cycles I will do openssl and gnutls rebase in sync. There should not be
> > any API changes so simple rebuild will be sufficient.
> 
> You mean there are ABI changes and no API changes?
For GNUTLS see my other mail. For OpenSSL - there are ABI changes -
structure sizes changes mostly and there are of course some API changes,
mostly additions, some constification etc. But they shouldn't break
compilation of existing apps of course.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb




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