[Fedora-packaging] perl module MODULE_COMPAT
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Mon Apr 4 01:19:20 UTC 2005
Warren Togami wrote:
> Since then however perl has not broken ABI (?), so it seems that we have
> this seemingly overcomplicated construct. But if we do break ABI again
> like in FC5 because we recompile the same version of FC4 perl with some
> new flag, MODULE_COMPAT can enforce exact deps and prevent incompatible
> FC4 packages from being installed on FC5.
>
[root at fedora64 perl5]# ls
5.8.0 5.8.1 5.8.2 5.8.3 5.8.4 5.8.5 5.8.6 site_perl vendor_perl
[root at fedora64 perl5]# pwd
/usr/lib64/perl5
Hmm, FC4 still continues to have symlinks going back to 5.8.0 (RHEL3).
I think this is a mistake. We haven't maintained ABI compat that long
right?
Dirs should have been removed when they are known to be incompatible.
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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