Attention: F16 packages needing rebuilds due to the trailing slash bug of rpm-4.9.1

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:10:17 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:

> Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> writes:
> > Due to the brown paperbag bug of rpm-4.9.1 causing unwanted
> > trailing slashes on directories (with various nasty side-effects),
> > the following packages in F16 require rebuilding. ...
> > This list was compiled from a F16 mirror and does NOT include 
> > updates-testing, so if any of the packages above have a newer
> > version in the pipeline already, no further rebuilds are needed for
> > those.
> 
> Is it possible that anything now in updates-testing has got the bug?
> Releng have been blocking updates from getting into f16-stable for
> some time now, so I know I've got packages that were built several
> weeks ago and are still waiting in testing.  When exactly was the
> busted rpm version present in the buildroots?

We are trying to release a F16 Alpha, so only updates that fix blocker
bugs can go to stable until thats composed. Hopefully we will have that
today and the stable updates can push out. 

kevin
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