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

[Panu Matilainen]

On 08/17/2011 05:10 PM, Tom Lane 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?

The buggy version was in buildroots briefly on July 15th, and then from 
July 19th to 21st. The second period is where most of the damage 
happened. So anything in updates[-testing|-pending] should not be 
affected, as F16 was branched July 26th AFAICS.

	- Panu -