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Re: Soname bump


On 08/15/2011 07:35 PM, Anthony Green wrote:
> Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> Yes, but that will mean that packages will be broken by the libffi update,
>> so the Fedora update mechanism will have to push new versions to hundreds
>> of thousands (millions?) of users.  If I change the libffi package I don't
>> think there's any way to confine the soname bump to ARM, even though only
>> ARM needs it.
> 
> Andrew and I just discussed this on IRC, the result of which is that I
> just reversed the ABI changing fix from the git libffi repo, and will
> try to push out 3.0.10 this week in order to publish a Fedora 15 update.
> 
> Then I'll immediately re-apply this patch to the 3.0.11 train for F16.

and having two libffi5's with a different set of symbols?


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