[Mageia-dev] openssl regression

Mon Jun 11 12:13:59 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 11/06/12 10:19 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le 11/06/2012 09:56, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>> Well it the .so name does not change then it *should* be ABI compatible.
+>> It seems in this case it's only API compatible but that doesn't rule out
+>> certain values, macros or flags changing such that everything needs a
+>> recompile.
+> Just rebuilding openssl with different build options already triggered
+> such kind of issues. I remember adding SNI support broke ntp in the
+> past, until this last package was rebuilt. The safe way should be to
+> rebuild everything right now, but given than almost everything in the
+> distribution uses this library, I think just letting normal update flow
+> should be enough, unless actual problems are found.
+
+Probably true and I think we should ensure that a full rebuild is done
+before the beta cycle anwyay. We did moot this for mga2 but it was
+deemed (correctly IMO) too late to start messing with that.
+
+But until then a full rebuild is likely overkill.
+
+Col
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