Rebuilds needed for Fedora 8

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Aug 21 14:52:19 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> There are currently two technical issues that require rebuilding of
> packages.
> 
> 1) a bad binutils was used in buildroots for almost two months that
> caused all ppc32 binaries to need execmem.  SELinux rightfully denies
> this.  We need to rebuild the effected packages so that ppc and SELinux
> work again.
> 
> 2) build-id (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId)
> Any binary package with a debuginfo package that hasn't been built
> after the good build-id stuff landed needs to be rebuilt so that it has
> a build-id.
> 
> The unique combination of these two has led to a list of 2845 packages
> that will need to be rebuilt.
> (http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/really-need-to-rebuild)  That's 598
> packages that need rebuilding for the ppc32 issue, and 2831 that need
> building due to the build-id issue (there is obviously some crossover).

What were the dates when these two issues were resolved? Is it very 
recently? I built milter-regex on 6th August and it's on the list...

Paul.




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