Heads up openssl-0.9.8j in rawhide

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 22:21:19 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:18 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 23:03 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > As the library should not break any major application I'd like to not
> > wait for the alpha unfreeze as the rebuild of all the deps will surely
> > take some time.
> 
> Isn't this precisely a reason /not/ to do it before the alpha freeze?  A
> change like this is likely to break buildroots, break anaconda composes,
> break installs, break users.  This isn't the kind of crap we want to
> land in rawhide just before a freeze, and just before an effort to turn
> that freeze into something usable.  PLEASE wait until after Alpha has
> been cut to do this.

If you can do this in such a way that rpmdeps don't break, that's fine.
I re-read your message again and noticed the part about a compat symlink
and rpm provides.  Please ensure that works before doing the builds in
koji.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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