PaulHowarth/Blog/2024-06-11

Tuesday 11th June 2024

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.895 in Rawhide:

  • Revert back to calling CORE::rand() to set the internal seed; MCE and MCE::Child cannot assume the srand or setter function used by the application for predictability

    • https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11159834

    • https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11159827

  • Add class methods MCE->seed and MCE::Child->seed to retrieve the seed

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.890 in Rawhide:

  • Revert back to calling CORE::rand() to set the internal seed; MCE::Hobo cannot assume the srand or setter function used by the application for predictability

    • https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11159834

    • https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11159827

  • Add class method MCE::Hobo->seed to retrieve the seed

Local Packages

• Updated perl-MCE to 1.895 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.890 as per the Fedora version