GDBM upgrade in F17

[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 08:49 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:32:59 +0200
> Nils Philippsen <nils at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 11:29 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> > > On 2011-09-21, Nils Philippsen <nils at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 10:59 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> > > >> Jan Horak (hhorak) is going to upgrade GDBM to version with new
> > > >> SONAME in F17. Because rel-engs refused to provide dedicated
> > > >> build root, the upgrade will be performed in F17 directly.
> > > >>
> > > >> That means Perl, Pyhon and other default-build-root packages will
> > > >> disable support for GDBM temporarily. So if your package needs
> > > >> GDBM support in those languages, please wait until new GDMB and
> > > >> other packages (Perl, Python and similar) get recompiled again
> > > >> against this new GDBM.
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried building gdbm, creating the buildroot in bodhi,
> > > > then untagging gdbm from f17 instead?
> > > >
> > > Bodhi and F17?
> > 
> > Why not, you're not trying to submit an update, are you ;-)? As of
> > buildroot overrides, bodhi isn't used solely for updates anymore (even
> > though the URL ends in /updates/). The buildroot override document[1]
> > doesn't mention that this would be limited to branches.
> 
> It is. Bodhi doesn't operate on rawhide at all... and a buildroot
> override makes no sense related to rawhide. When you build a package in
> rawhide it's automatically added to the buildroot the next time it's
> generated. 

Ahh I'm late. Anyway, that's a side-effect of using the bodhi interface
to manage something in koji then. It'd still be handy if we could use
that for Rawhide so we don't break all dependent things for people who
want to test something else than what we're breaking at the moment.

Nils
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