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=== Friday 26th October 2007 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

It's been a busy week for me.
I got down to the last three of my packages that needed rebuilding for
[[FedoraProject:Releases/FeatureBuildId|BuildId]] inclusion, namely
`ORBit`, `gnome-libs`, and `libglade`, which I'd held off on doing because I
wanted to fix the license tags at the same time, and these packages were
potentially troublesome mixed-license packages that would need detailed
examination.

Then, at the start of the week, I received multi-arch conflict bug reports for
[[RedHatBugzilla:342501|libxml]],
[[RedHatBugzilla:342801|ORBit]],
[[RedHatBugzilla:341321|gnome-libs]], and
[[RedHatBugzilla:342131|libglade]].
So I wanted to fix those too, which wasn't terribly difficult really
but still time-consuming.

When I came to build the updated `gnome-libs`, I found it failed because
of a compile error on ppc64.
It turns out that the `configure` script for `gnome-libs` looks to see if `umode_t`
is defined in the system header files and, if not, defines it as an `int`
(it's used in the VFS layer).
This doesn't cause a problem on x86 and ppc architectures, but on ppc64 there
is a definition of `umode_t` (as an `int`) in a kernel header file that's pulled
in via `signal.h`. The `configure` script doesn't find it because it doesn't check
`signal.h` and so it ends up getting defined twice and causing a compile error.
Fixing the `configure` script to include `signal.h` when checking for `umode_t`
was enough to resolve the problem.

So eventually I got the packages built for Rawhide, but I'd missed the
[[FedoraProject:ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy|final freeze]] for Fedora 8.
I wrote to the release engineering team to put my case for including the updates in
Fedora 8 (BuildID and ppc64 builds being quite important) and it was agreed
to include the new versions. Hopefully I won't need to touch any of these packages
for some considerable time now.

==== Local Packages ====

 * Built RHEL/CentOS versions of the updated Fedora packages for `libxml`, `ORBit`, `gnome-libs`, and `libglade`
 * Updated `perl-IO-Socket-SSL` to 1.12

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