[Mageia-dev] Update to boost-1.53 ?

Wed Apr 3 18:33:33 CEST 2013

31.03.2013 12:47, Barry Jackson kirjoitti:
+> As mentioned in last week's packager's meeting, there is a problem with 
+> our gnuradio package, because upstream have blacklisted boost-1.52.
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8789
+> 
+> I have spent considerable time test rebuilding all packages from current 
+> svn that BuildRequire boost, against boost-1.53 to see if an update of 
+> boost is viable. (x86_64 only so far)
+> 
+> Fixes have been applied to some packages and now there are just two 
+> remaining that fail to build:-
+> 
+> libyui
+> 
+> log: 
+> http://mtf.no-ip.co.uk/pub/linux/barjac/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/log/libyui-2.42.4-0.git20130107.3.mga3.src.rpm/build.0.20130328124443.log
+> 
+> vegastrike
+> 
+> log: 
+> http://mtf.no-ip.co.uk/pub/linux/barjac/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/log/vegastrike-0.5.1-16.mga3.src.rpm/build.0.20130328162253.log
+> 
+> The full list of test built packages is attached.
+> 
+> The alternative to updating boost would be to drop gnuradio from Mageia3.
+
+Third alternative is to backport the boost fix to 1.52:
+https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/81289
+
+I have no preference at this time on what should be done, though.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+