Re: GnuTLS soname bump in rawhide

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On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 08:34:18AM -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> On 02/07/2013 07:27 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The other potential impact is that gnutls no longer uses libgcrypt,
> > but instead uses nettle.
> > 
> > This can impact apps that were using gnutls in a threaded environment
> > because they probably have used 'gcry_control' to register a thread
> > impl for gcrypt, to ensure that gnutls was thread safe.
> > 
> > So merely rebuilding applications may well not work & require some
> > code changes. This will certainly impact libvirt builds.
> 
> You can just remove the gcry_control() calls; they've been unnecessary
> since gnutls 2.11.0.

Unfortunately not - libvirt code has to support versions earlier than
that - we don't mandate use of newest gnutls. We target any releae
since RHEL5 vintage or later, which means gnutls >= 1.4.x


Daniel
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