RFC: rpm auto-glib version enforcement

[Warren Togami]

Gene C. wrote:
> On Sunday 20 March 2005 05:56, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
>>I added this to gaim.spec a while ago because users were installing
>>rawhide gaim compiled against glib2-2.6.x on FC3, which has glib2-2.4.x.
>>  gaim was then crashing because:
>>
>>1) applications compiled against a newer glib are not backwards ABI
>>compatible.  AFAIK glib is supposed to be only forward ABI compatible. [1]
>>2) glib does not use verisoned so names
>>3) so rpm auto-dep cannot enforce compatible glib ABI version
> 
> 
> Warren -- anyone who takes a binary package from an up-level release and tries 
> to run it on a down-level system will likely get problems (e.g., from rawhide 
> on FC3).  While newbies may not understand this, experienced users should.
> 
> Somehow, there needs to be education that taking packages from up-level (e.g., 
> rawhide) to be run on a down-level system MUST be rebuilt on the down-level 
> systems.
> 
> I certainly understand your frustration with these "extra" bugzilla reports 
> but there must be a better way than kluging the spec files.

"there must be a better way than kluging the spec files"
And I did propose a way that does this automatically without kludging 
spec files.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com