Fedora Extras 4 Package Build Report

[dragoran]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On 7/28/05, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
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>>libcddb and libcdio are still broken (don't let me install vcdimager
>>from livna or freshrpms):
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>You need to be more careful about what you mean by 'broken' and where
>you point the finger. In this case Fedora Extras is no longer broken..
>the libcddb and libcdio packages form a self-consistent set. The
>problem is the updated versions include new versions of the libraries
>that are incompatible with the older livna and freshrpms packages. 
>The 'breaking' of depchains across repository boundaries is very very
>hard to avoid as long as Fedora Extras continues to use a rolling
>release model that allows for updates to include new libraries that
>change ABI and API. In this respect Fedora Extras shares some
>characteristics with rawhide.
>Once you start talking about dependancy problems across any repository
>boundary things get really complicated. Core updates on occasion will
>'break' Extras packages in a similar fashion until Extras catches up,
>more so with Core development.
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>Notwithstanding a shift in the rolling policy, there are potential
>ways to make it easier for 3rd party repos to catch up before an
>ABI/API breaking update is pushed to the consumable FE tree.  There
>could be a minimal amount of time that new updates sit in a "pending"
>repo and 3rd party repos can run scripted runs of repoclosure against
>FE and FE-pending as well as their own repos. Runs of repoclosure in
>this way would give 3rd party maintainers a headsup about impending
>dep chain breakages and give them a finite time to respond with
>updates to their packages or to talk with the FE maintainer and work
>out another arrangement like providing a compatibility package in FE
>if that is the more appropriate solution.
>
>-jef
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Hello
I thought that the error is in extras because of this:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-July/msg00819.html
but it seems to be only a abi issue ...
I downloaded the src rpm and it builds and installs fine with now.