fedora tevent problem

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu Aug 11 03:54:45 MDT 2011


Hi Tridge, Simo,

Sorry for not advertising this change more broadly, I didn't realize you 
had packages that included the brokenness.

On 08/11/2011 04:51 AM, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> The simplest fix for the tevent symbol version problem on Fedora may
> be to remove the ABI/tevent-0.9.9.sigs file from your Fedora
> build. That will force all the symbols that should be 0.9.9 to be
> 0.9.10, which matches the previous behaviour.
>
> You'd need to keep this change forever though.
s/forever/until we bump the API version (libtevent-1.X)/
> Thanks to Amitay for the suggestion!
>
> Note that we could also just remove that file from the repo, but doing
> that would break any binaries that people have built against the
> current releases since Jelmers change in March.
Yeah, that would break the Debian packages. The Debian build tools were 
what alerted me to the problem in the first place, as they didn't allow 
me to build with removed symbols.

Cheers,

Jelmer


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