[Mageia-dev] OK to update libffi?

[Balcaen John]

Le dimanche 5 août 2012 19:41:41 David Walser a écrit :
> John Balcaen <mikala at ...> writes:
> > 2012/8/5 David Walser <luigiwalser at ...>:
> > > It has a new upstream version 3.0.11 available.  It builds fine here.
> > > 
> > > The major number changes from 5 to 6 in this version, which is why I am
> 
> asking if it is OK to update this package.
> 
> > did you try it before ? (i mean at least rebuild major packages based on
> > it? )
> No, but predicting what will build in Cauldron is a crapshoot at best
> anyway.
> 
> I don't know exactly what this package does or even what most of the
> packages that require it are.  I just know that it's installed on my system
> and I don't want unmaintained stuff bitrotting away on my system, hence the
> interest.
urpmf --requires libtiff.so.5 is enough to have an idea of thoses packages 
linked against this library.
& to have the (minimal) list of package using it as devel br you can use
urpmf --requires libtiff-devel --media Core_SRPMS
where Core_SRPMS is the media cauldron/SRPMS/core/release

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Balcaen John