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Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> >> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely |
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> >> braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this |
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> >> kind of breakage. |
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> > Hmmmm. I've been working on my ebuild and end-o-mentoring quizes:: so in |
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> > that vein, should not the gentoo dev have bumped the gentoo rev |
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> > numbers, or did I miss-read the gentoo docs? |
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> So, first, this isn't really the forum to critique what the devs did, |
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> and I haven't spoken to them so I can't vouch for what their knowledge |
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> was at the time. |
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Excuse me, but I did not criticize anyone. I *appreciate* what the devs do; |
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in fact so much, I've started down that path myself. As one who has put |
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together dozens of ebuilds, but few published, I greatly appreciated their |
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work and the opportunity to learn from all mistakes, mine and the devs. |
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Besides, I'm not a dev, so what forum would be more appropriate to question |
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and learn about ebuilds and booboos? So please appreciated that thge focus |
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of my questions, *are to learn* with a robust discussion, as I do intend to |
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seek dev_status one day. Are 'users' discouraged from breaking down |
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package/ebuild issues in this forum? If so, which forum can I ask questions, |
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even the dumb ones? |
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> Revbumping wouldn't help, and I'm pretty sure they did revbump it. |
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> The real issue was upstream, and I'd have to think about whether |
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> trying to fix it with a Gentoo patch would make things better or worse |
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> (it would make Gentoo different from everybody else, causing havoc if |
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> you had a proprietary binary you wanted to run and so on). |
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One of the dev-quiz questions is about how long to leave a package in |
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testing, with 30 days being the minimum, unless there is critical need, |
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or have I not correctly understood the docs and devmanual? Again, I have no |
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idea how long this package was in 'testing' but, this does sound like an |
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excellent opportunity for fledgling devs to learn a bit deeper? My |
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intentions are only based on the good for this distro, but, close |
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examination, at least for me, is highly warranted. |
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So what commands do I run (git style) to see the history of the relevant |
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build/release dates for openssl? The changelog seems incomplete.... |
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> Upstream really dropped the ball on this. When I'm updating packages |
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> I certainly don't carefully review all their ABIs and SONAMEs. |
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> Without some kind of automatic QA tool it would be a pretty big |
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> undertaking. I might go see if there is such a tool though, maybe |
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> that might be a good outcome if such a tool exists. |
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> >> Everybody should be on the lookout for this update and carefully |
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> >> follow the forum post instructions to get through it. Again, in |
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> >> light of the dev-quizes, should not the package maintainer have |
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> >> posted a news item prior/simultaneously to the new package release? |
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> Sure, if they had known about it. However, it sounds like they may |
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> have been as surprised as anybody else. I'd really like to see one |
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> right away though. |
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Thanks! Good answer and now I'll have to go an edited/update my dev quiz |
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responses to indicate that a late news items, for something critical or that |
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touches so many packages, is warranted. Excellent, concrete example. One of |
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the things I have been working on, is supplying more details examples to the |
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devmanual current editor, just like this one, to reinforce the key |
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principles of the devmanual. I think some kind of footnotes to lots of |
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practical examples, is *exactly what the dev manual is missing* imho. |
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> The way openssl handles their ABIs really makes me think that libressl |
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> may not be the lesser evil. Sloppy SONAME handling causes all kinds |
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> of issues though and seeing it in high-profile projects like these is |
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> pretty concerning. |
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Good to know. In fact gentoo supports such a wide variety of libs so all of |
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this information, in a practical example, is very valuable imho. |
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> > Not trying to stir things up, just scratching many itches here on the |
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> > dev-quizes. Surely we are all human(oid) and thus forgiving of our |
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> > comrades....even to the point of encouragement? |
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> Of course. To err is human. To stabilize errs carries the death |
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> penalty. :) (I'm sure somebody will file that away for the next |
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> stable package I break.) |
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Easy on being so critical, either for others or yourself. I've been hacking |
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on ebuilds for almost a year now, and there is good reason quite a few |
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of mine are still not published....... Besides this is excellent evidence |
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for CI (Jenkins + Gerrit) ? Are you not a proponent of CI for Gentoo? |
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That's a common and ordinary usage for clusters these days..... |
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I do appreciate the information and candor! |
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be at peace, |
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James |