On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:02 PM Anthony Green <green@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Guido Aulisi <guido.aulisi@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > If you know all depending packages will get updated in an acceptable > > time to the new ABI, you can wait for this to happen, and then rebuild > > all in rawhide. > > The API is mostly the same. Virtually everything should already build > with the new version (Debian has tested this already). But the upgrade > just isn't that simple. A number of key packages (eg. RPM) depend on > libffi. My understanding is that we'll have to make a 'compat' version > of libffi using the current version, then build/deploy the new version, > and then go back and rebuild all of the dependent packages before > deleting the compat package. > RPM does not use libffi at all. That said, it's quite easy to do a rebuild of libffi's reverse dependencies in a side-tag and then merge it back in. You can always ask for help from releng or other folks around here to help get it done. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
