[HEADS UP] Upcoming soname change for libtirpc

[Ian Kent]

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 18:46 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 09:49 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> >  
> > This policy is clearly sensible and necessary, no question about
> > that.
> > 
> > But this appears to be an opportunity for improvement as well.
> > 
> > Fortunately the breakage looks like it should be straight forward
> > to
> > resolve but that obviously might not always be the case.
> > 
> > For my part I wonder if getting advanced notice would have helped
> > because I'm not sure what the process is to properly work through a
> > staging environment and build test process.
> > 
> > Going about it the long way could mean a week might not be long
> > enough.
> > 
> > There must be a process that doesn't involve having to go through
> > quite
> > a bit of work on my local machine when that sort of infrastructure
> > should be available via the repository and build system or a
> > documented
> > process of steps for building locally.
> 
> Well, see the last suggestion in my mail, about using COPR.
> http://copr.fedoraproject.org/

Yes, that does look useful and TBH I hadn't checked what COPR had to
offer until I saw your previous response.

The steps you outlined in that reply were also useful for local builds,
thanks for putting in the effort to describe it.

Still, with COPR I would need to find a suitable location to put the
repo. so perhaps the mock method would suit me better.

There must be others that would find what you wrote useful for this
case, how do I go about requesting the Policy be updated (just
slightly, to include basically what you wrote)? 

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