[Mageia-dev] openssl regression

Mon Jun 11 12:54:36 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Sander Lepik at 11/06/12 11:44 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Jun 11, 2012 1:14 PM, "Colin Guthrie" <mageia at colin.guthr.ie
+> <mailto:mageia at colin.guthr.ie>> wrote:
+>>
+>> '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.
+> What about gcc 4.7? I think we should switch to that one as well. And
+> then rebuild is needed anyway. So full rebuild at the moment is probably
+> not the best idea.
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