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Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 21:52:13 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:27:08PM -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>2008/12/3 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>:
>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:09:26 +0000
>> rjones at redhat.com ("Richard W.M. Jones") wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Just to keep people updated, upstream OCaml made some small but
>>> significant change to a library which turns out to break lots of
>>> packages.  So this is going to take some time to get fixed.
>>>
>>> Details here and in the follow-up messages.
>>>
>>> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2008/11/4a13be017ce7f9b70941fe09fbcd9359.en.html
>>
>> This subject came up at todays FESCo meeting. There continue to be a
>> bunch of broken dependencies in rawhide on these packages.
>>
>> Is there anything we can do to assist you in getting things back in
>> shape? I'd be happy to fix packages, but I don't know Ocaml, so it
>> would need to be a clear fix. ;)
>
>Maybe there should be a new tag in Koji for fixing up all of the Ocaml
>packages like was was done for Python 2.6 recently (dist-f11-python)
>or Perl 5.10 for F-10 (dist-f10-perl).  Is there an easy way to make
>packages tagged with dist-f11-ocaml yum installable so that testing
>the packages is easier?

A separate tag isn't really going to help things, given that the updated
Ocaml is already in rawhide.

josh




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