rawhide report: 20051110 changes

[Avi Kivity]

Tomas Mraz wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 20:52 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
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>>Build System wrote:
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>>>- Rebuild due to mysql 5.0 update and openssl library update.
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>>we see rebuilds very often due to library updates. are they strictly 
>>necessary (i.e., do the libraries break binary compatbility so often?)
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>The openssl doesn't keep ABI stable between versions (sometimes even
>between the patch levels). So bumping the soname and rebuilding
>dependencies was necessary. 
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okay.

>There is other problem that some of the
>dependencies are not necessary (they are pulled only through pkgconfig).
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aha. I guess this adds to the churn.

my question wasn't about openssl specifically (though it did generate a 
lot of rebuilds)

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