[Mageia-dev] openssl regression

[Colin Guthrie]

'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.

+1


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