Re: Upgrading libffi

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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 06:24:35AM -0500, Anthony Green wrote:
> 
> Anthony Green <green@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> I suppose you could also
> >> add both old and new libffi source to the libffi package and build them
> >> both (old to compat), rebuild in side tag and drop the old
> >> sources/compat.
> 
> >> Does that make sense?
> >
> > I like this idea because it seems simple.
> 
> I did go this route.  I now have a libffi spec file that installs both
> the .6 and .7 versions of the library (I didn't even break out the .6
> version into a compat package).  I'm currently doing local mock builds
> of the 90+ packages that depend directly on libffi.  Once all of them
> build locally, my plan is to commit my franken-package to rawhide and
> arrange for those 90+ rawhide packages to be built.  Once those are
> rebuilt, I simply clean up the libffi spec, removing the .6 version.
> 
> Objections?

Sounds good to me. If you run into any issues let me know. 

kevin

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