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=== Monday 21st January 2008 ===

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `perl-BerkeleyDB` to 0.33

This proved to be troublesome to build on older distributions such as Fedora Core 2 and older,
and CentOS 3 (i386). There seemed to be lots of problems with mutexes though strangely the x86_64
version for CentOS 3 was OK. Looking through the README file included in the upstream distribution
suggested that Red Hat's packaging was a problem, and included a reference to
[[RedHatBugzilla:91933|Bug #91933]]. Following the trail, it appeared to be an issue with the
i386 version of `glibc` on those distributions. Looking at the `root.log` file produced by `mock`
for these builds, I could see that the i386 version of `glibc` was indeed being pulled in,
as opposed to say the i586, i686, or athlon versions. So, I tried adding the following to the
`yum` configuration for `mock` for the problematic releases:
{{{
# We don't want the i386 glibc because it doesn't support NTPL threads properly
# and causes build failures for perl-BerkeleyDB
exclude=glibc.i386}}}
This resulted in i586, i686, or athlon versions of `glibc` being installed into the buildroot
by `mock`, and the build problems went away :-)

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Updated `bluefish` in Fedora 8 and Rawhide to include upstream patch for [[RedHatBugzilla:390871|Bug #390871]] (Unable to change syntax highlighting in Bluefish)

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