Heads up openssl-0.9.8j in rawhide

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 01/15/2009 12:03 AM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> I am going to build new openssl into rawhide really soon. As the new
> version contains some minor ABI breaks it will require SONAME bump of
> the openssl libraries. That also means all the 288 dependent packages
> will have to be rebuilt. Not counting that some of the dependent
> packages have circular dependencies.
>
> But do not be scared. As the ABI break is pretty minimal and as it
> should not affect a large majority of applications I am going to
> temporarily provide symlinks to the old library soname and appropriate
> provides in the rpm package. Of course this will be dropped as soon as
> all (or majority of) the dependencies are rebuilt.
>
> 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.
>   
Shout loud over here after your builds have been started, please. Bonus 
points for providing  the  link to the koji task#, so that we can track it.
TIA

    wolfy