Heads up: libOSMesa soname bump and etc

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed Oct 20 18:12:25 UTC 2010


On 10/20/2010 11:49 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> We've been carrying a patch to libOSMesa for far too long now to fix the
> soname at .6, since there was no actual ABI change between .6 and .7.
> I'm tired of porting the patch so it'll be libOSMesa.so.7 in the next
> Mesa build in F15.
>
> The only affected packages seem to be vtk and paraview, so I'll kick off
> rebuilds for them as well.
>
> In related news, nothing seems to be using libOSMesa16 or libOSMesa32,
> so they're getting dropped.  If they're being used in an external repo
> please let me know, and if they are then we should probably figure out
> alternate packaging for them since it doesn't make sense to upgrade them
> at the same rate as the DRI drivers.
>
> - ajax
>

Please fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635865 while you're at 
it, or paraview won't build.  Thanks!

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