On 03/21/2012 11:28 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: > On 03/21/2012 10:22 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: >> 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. > > When did the libdb maintainer say this? The new libdb has co-existed > with db4 since F15 and still the majority of Berkeley DB users in Fedora > are using db4. > He promised to announce it on fedora-devel. I'll mark it into my Perl todo list to be sure. >>> 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. > > OK, fair enough. I trust RH is on top of the issue though :-) > > Paul. > -- 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
