* Florian Weimer: > Firefox in rawhide hasn't been built successfully since > firefox-89.0-1.fc35 (built 2021-06-02). Unfortunately that version does > not treat the clone3 system call correctly in its sandbox, so it won't > work with future glibc 2.34 snapshots. > > I fixed the issues to get firefox building again and attached a patch to > this bug: > > firefox: FTBFS with Python 3.10 in rawhide due to collections.abc change > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1983645> > > (The patch also includes a glibc 2.34 compatibility change, separately > tracked as #1983696 for downstream convenience.) > > The sandbox works again because the rawhide sources already had the > required changes, they simply had not been built yet. > > What's the Fedora etiquette for fixing such long-standing FTBFS bugs? > > I seem to recall that firefox used to be a special package, not to be > touched even by provenpackagers. > > On the other hand, I would like to upload another glibc 2.34 snapshot > whose ABI is closer to what upstream is going to release on August 2nd. > With that snapshot, glibc will start using clone3 internally, and that's > incompatible with older firefox builds. > > It's not critical to do this glibc import before the mass rebuild > because we definitely expect that the glibc 2.34 release will be > backwards-compatible with what we have in Fedora today. But we will > miss some non-critical changes related to libresolv integration, so I'd > like to proceed with the import. Due to this issue, I disabled glibc for the mass rebuild. The current version in dist-git already uses clone3, and the mass rebuild would have eventually tagged into the buildroot/compose, which we don't want until firefox is fixed. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
