On 03/21/2012 10:27 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: > I think Fedora's perl (and the rest of the distribution for that matter) > should be built against libdb (db5) rather than db4, at least in > Rawhide, so as to avoid problems like: > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/768846 > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/712943 > > Changed the BR: of db4-devel to libdb-devel is sufficient to achieve > this, and the resulting perl does pass its test suite. > I was told by libdb maintainer that db4 will be replaced by libdb. Rebuild of all dependencies or everything will be needed, so those bugs shouldn't occurred. I guess he will drive the whole change and rebuild. > Anybody else have any opinion on this? > > Marcela, is RHEL-7 built consistently against the same libdb version or > is this mixing of versions going to be a problem throughout its entire > lifecycle? > > Paul. I'm not allowed to discuss it on public list. Marcela -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
