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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2007-08-21

Tuesday 21st August 2007

Fedora Project

The mass rebuild for Fedora 8 has started.

The technical reasons for this are:

  • Anything that is binary, has debuginfo, and hasn't been built with rpm 4.4.2.1-7 or newer (which landed around 2007-08-14 02:00:00.000000 koji time) needs to be rebuilt to include BuildID data

  • Anything built with binutils between versions 2.17.50.0.16 and 2.17.50.0.17-7 (that's from 2007-06-12 04:01:15.000000 to 2007-07-31 02:10:19.000000 roughly) caused all ppc32 binaries to need execmem. SELinux rightfully denies this, and affected packages need to be rebuilt to fix this

The non-technical reasons include getting the license tags to match the new Licensing policy and to make sure that all maintainers are still around.

Today I rebuilt gtorrentviewer, perl-Authen-DigestMD5, perl-Class-Loader, perl-Crypt-DH, perl-IO-stringy, perl-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser, perl-MailTools, perl-Math-GMP, perl-Math-Pari, perl-MIME-tools, perl-Net-SSH-Perl, perl-String-CRC32, and milter-regex

I also looked at perl-Tie-EncryptedHash but it didn't need rebuilding as it's an architecture-independent package and the license tag is correct, albeit problematic for Fedora, but that's another story...

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