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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:15:37
Message-Id: nb701p$i9f$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds by walt
1 On 02/03/16 16:41, walt wrote:
2 > Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary
3 > rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors.
4 >
5 > Example: libcurl was broken and caused the rebuilds of virtualbox and
6 > git to fail until I forced a rebuild of curl. Any installed package
7 > that is actually linked against openssl will be affected by this,
8 > notably curl or wget, which may prevent portage from fetching source
9 > files.
10
11 Does that mean that the library name is the same and the "preserve-libs"
12 FEATURE doesn't kick in in this case?

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