Heads up openssl-0.9.8j in rawhide

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 22:25:35 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:21 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:18 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 23:03 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > > As the library should not break any major application I'd like to not
> > > wait for the alpha unfreeze as the rebuild of all the deps will surely
> > > take some time.
> > 
> > Isn't this precisely a reason /not/ to do it before the alpha freeze?  A
> > change like this is likely to break buildroots, break anaconda composes,
> > break installs, break users.  This isn't the kind of crap we want to
> > land in rawhide just before a freeze, and just before an effort to turn
> > that freeze into something usable.  PLEASE wait until after Alpha has
> > been cut to do this.
> 
> If you can do this in such a way that rpmdeps don't break, that's fine.
> I re-read your message again and noticed the part about a compat symlink
> and rpm provides.  Please ensure that works before doing the builds in
> koji.

Surely, I am not that stupid to break all the deps a week before freeze.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb




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