Boost 1.50 built into a side tag

[Jon Ciesla]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is to let you know that boost has been upgraded to 1.50, sans
> Python 3 support, which will arrive later.
>
> After complaints in past years, we decided to request a dedicated
> side-tag ("f18-boost") not to break a hundred or so packages that depend
> on it in Rawhide.  As always, all client packages, especially those that
> depend on boost runtime libraries, need to be rebuilt, but this time
> around you need to request the right tag explicitly:
>
>         fedpkg build --target=f18-boost
>
> This tag will live for a couple weeks, but I think we should merge back
> before alpha freeze, which is 2012-08-14, in about two weeks.
>
> There's at least one disruptive change that I know about:
> Boost.Filesystem v2 has been discontinued and anyone who hasn't yet
> ported their code to v3 must do so now.
>
> As usual, feel free to open bugs, ping me on IRC (_petr) or send e-mails
> if one of your packages doesn't like the new boost.  We'll figure out
> how to work around the notorious API changes.  (Or fix boost.)

I rebuilt my boost users into f18-boost, and now I'm getting rawhide
broken dep warnings for one that needs a rebuild for libGLEW.  The
boost rebuild in f18-boost has the new libGLEW.  I'm assuming I can
just let it sit until f18-boost is tagged into f18, right?

-J

> Thank you,
> Petr Machata
>
> Related:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F18Boost150
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825826
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5230
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