db4 is now updated to 4.5.20 and compat-db to 4.3.29

Jindrich Novy jnovy at redhat.com
Sat Nov 11 06:43:35 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:20 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:42 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Friday 10 November 2006 13:48, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > > db4 is now updated to 4.5.20, so please if you are a maintainer of a
> > > package listed below, which is dependent on it, consider rebuilding ASAP
> > > so that I don't break rawhide for too long
> > 
> > Um, this broke our build system, as pam couldn't be installed with the new 
> > db4.
> > 
> > Executing /usr/sbin/mock-helper 
> > yum --installroot /var/lib/mock/dist-fc7-build-132984-25233/root 
> > install  'libX11-devel' 'libXt-devel' 'libICE-devel' 'libXmu-devel' 'libXrender-devel' 'libXext-devel' 'gettext' 'automake' 'control-center-devel' 'gnome-desktop-devel' 'libwnck-devel' 'libSM-devel' 'libtool' 'libdrm-devel' 'libXrandr-devel' 'desktop-file-utils' 'GConf2-devel' 'intltool 
> > >= 
> > 0.35' 'libXcomposite-devel' 'libXfixes-devel' 'autoconf' 'libXdamage-devel'
> > Error: pam conflicts with db4 >= 4.4.0
> > 
> > I've untagged your builds so that the buildroots can continue to be used.  
> > When changing a low level package like db4, it is important to work with the 
> > release engineering/buildsystem team to prevent buildroot breakage.  We'll 
> > need to discuss how to get your update integrated into the buildroots.  For 
> > now, its out.
> 
> Simply pam's internal copy of db4 must be upgraded to 4.5 as well first.
> I'll notify Jindrich after it will be upgraded.

Is it really necessary to define explicit conflicts when pam uses its
own db4 and isn't dependent on the system-wide db4 at all?

> 
> I've also noticed that License tag in spec contains GPL for the db4
> which doesn't seem correct to me. Jindrich could you fix that as well?

Thanks for noticing this. I'll switch the license to BSDish in the next
build.

Jindrich
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