Re: rawhide report: 20051110 changes

[Avi Kivity <avi argo co il>]

Tomas Mraz wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 20:52 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  
>
> > Build System wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > - Rebuild due to mysql 5.0 update and openssl library update.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > we see rebuilds very often due to library updates. are they strictly 
> > necessary (i.e., do the libraries break binary compatbility so often?)
> >    
> The openssl doesn't keep ABI stable between versions (sometimes even
> between the patch levels). So bumping the soname and rebuilding
> dependencies was necessary. 
okay.

> There is other problem that some of the
> dependencies are not necessary (they are pulled only through pkgconfig).
>  
aha. I guess this adds to the churn.

my question wasn't about openssl specifically (though it did generate a 
lot of rebuilds)

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