hwloc 1.4

[Orion Poplawski]

On 02/19/2012 09:35 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:21:25 +0100
> Jiri Hladky<hladky.jiri at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do see that hwloc 1.4 in EPEL6 can cause a lot of trouble given the
>> fact that hwloc 1.1 is now available in RHEL6 (when I was creating
>> hwloc package it was not in RHEL6 and in fact I was the major advocate
>> to include it in RHEL6). I will revoke the request.
>>
>> I'm not sure about EPEL5 - hwloc 1.1 is now very old compared with
>> hwloc 1.4 Should I revoke the request as well?
>
> Since hwloc is not in RHEL5, I think you can update it to 1.4 as long
> as it's not a incompatible upgrade. Will people using 1.1 there see any
> problems? Will they have to manually do anything to use 1.4? If not,
> and it's compatible it's up to the maintainer.
>
> kevin

There's a soname bump (libhwloc.so.1 -> .so.4) so I think it's verboten 
from that regard.  Despite not supporting upgrades from 5->6 it seems 
bad form to have EPEL5 be newer.

Orion

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