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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:07:16
Message-Id: loom.20160302T170144-997@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds by Rich Freeman
1 Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes:
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4 > >> Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary
5 > >> rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors.
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7 > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html
8 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128
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10 > They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely
11 > braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this
12 > kind of breakage.
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14 Hmmmm. I've been working on my ebuild and end-o-mentoring quizes:: so in
15 that vein, should not the gentoo dev have bumped the gentoo rev numbers, or
16 did I miss-read the gentoo docs?
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21 > Everybody should be on the lookout for this update and carefully
22 > follow the forum post instructions to get through it.
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25 Again, in light of the dev-quizes, should not the package maintainer have
26 posted a news item prior/simultaneously to the new package release?
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29 Not trying to stir things up, just scratching many itches here on the
30 dev-quizes. Surely we are all human(oid) and thus forginving of our
31 comrades....even to the point of encouragement?
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35 quizfully,
36 James

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