[Mageia-dev] mariadb: update for mga2?

Sat Jun 23 12:39:14 CEST 2012

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and D.Morgan at 23/06/12 10:10 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:03 AM, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+>>> Op zaterdag 23 juni 2012 07:53:40 schreef AL13N:
+>>>> Op zaterdag 23 juni 2012 01:00:03 schreef D.Morgan:
+>>>>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:42 AM, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+>>>>>> I was planning on doing 5.5.25 as an update since all post-GA releases
+>>>>>> are
+>>>>>> bugfix release in the same major version.
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> however, mariadb has been having rpm build issues and as such one of the
+>>>>>> last changes seemed to introduce a few things:
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> - 2 man pages missing (i reverted this for us)
+>>>>>> - 1 config file missing. (i reverted this for us)
+>>>>>> - private header files are installed (i removed this from our package)
+>>>>>> - selinux configuration for RHEL4 now appears (i also removed this)
+>>>>>> - handlersocket plugin is now installed. (i put this in the -extra
+>>>>>> subpackage)
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> This looks obviously a feature, except that i didn't it was stable for
+>>>>>> 5.5.23 and was simply forgotten to be installed, and is thus categorized
+>>>>>> as a bugfix.
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> Next to these are quite the amount of bugfixes. (none security related
+>>>>>> afaik).
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> Is this acceptable for updates? or isn't it?
+>>>>>
+>>>>> why do you ask *after* commiting on the svn ? would be better to ask
+>>>>> "before"
+>>>>
+>>>> huh? i didn't commit yet? or at least i didn't think i had?
+>>>
+>>> ah wait, i did a "mgarepo sync -d" . are you referring to that?
+>>>
+>>> i did almost accidentally commit, but it told me that the commit had failed
+>>> (due to my CTRL+C)
+>>>
+>>> but checking my svn workspace, the spec file and the extra patch isn't
+>>> committed though
+>>
+>> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/updates/2/mariadb/current/
+>>
+>> commited 10 hours ago
+>>
+>>
+>> Version:        5.5.25
+>>
+>> so spec file have been commited.
+>
+> Yeah I've often found that with SVN commits where I realise a mistake
+> has been made, my CTRL-C never seems to be quick enough!
+>
+> Col
+
+btw to go back to the subject,  i am not "against" as there is no
+change in the major, so no rebuild needed.
+Do you have a list of the changes of this release ?
+