On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:49:38AM +0200, mskal...@redhat.com wrote:
> Hi,
> a new version of gdbm is out. So I would like to update gdbm in
> Rawhide.
> (Important note to my question is that gdbm is in minimal buildroot.)
> 
> I've planned to do following (please correct me if I'm wrong it would
> result in disaster):
> 1. build compat-gdbm package with current content of gdbm package
> 2. rebase gdbm package in rawhide (soname is changed!) and wait for
> MassRebuild to rebuild other packages to rely back on gdbm instead
> compat-gdbm
> 
> 
> Question is:
> Gdbm was also updated before F28 rebuild. But some packages failed to
> build. So they still require compat-gdbm.
> 
> $ dnf repoquery --alldeps --whatrequires compat-gdbm
> clisp-0:2.49-22.20170224hg.fc26.i686
> clisp-0:2.49-22.20170224hg.fc26.x86_64
> compat-gdbm-devel-0:1.14-5.fc28.i686
> compat-gdbm-devel-0:1.14-5.fc28.x86_64
> ntop-0:5.0.1-15.fc28.x86_64
> perdition-0:2.1-7.fc26.i686
> perdition-0:2.1-7.fc26.x86_64
> 
> What to do? Is it fine to left these three packages as broken and
> normally update gdbm?
To just answer this part:
yes, it is fine to ignore packages which FTBFS and are not critically
important. We'll probably be retiring them if they continue to be
unbuildable anyway.

Zbyszek
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