[Mageia-dev] pushing pcre-8.32-2 manually

[Thomas Backlund]

Thierry Vignaud skrev 1.12.2012 14:44:
> On 1 December 2012 03:02, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
>>> Due to library splitted in recent pcre, the whole basesystem is not
>>> installable due to conflicts with older libs before rebuilding.
>>>
>>> Could someboy pushing pcre-8.32-2 into cauldron? I've removed a binary
>>> program temporarily so that conflicting libs won't raise for a little
>>> time, in order to rebuild all the packages.
>>
>> Yeah, thanks a lot for breaking the bs :/
>
> This happens.
> Only freezing distro and not make more work can prevent not breaking anything...
>

Yep. but atleast packages affecting basesystem should be _tested_
_before_ pushing it to core/release through bs.

either through local tests or using core/updates_testing...


>> Especially since this was a known problem and people was trying to
>> test and see how to best avoid it, but you just went ahead and pushed it :/
>
> This should have been done on public ml.
> This way this wouldn't have happened.

That is true, yes...
it was only discussed on irc, so thats atleast partly my fault :/

>
> Same as for not announcing freeze before alpha :-)
>

:)

--
Thomas