[Mageia-dev] Update to boost-1.53 ?

[Anssi Hannula]

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