Re: armadillo major update 10 to 12 in epel

Hi,

On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 14:54 +0100, Holger Schiebold wrote:
> it seems that again armadillo major update in epel (this time from 10
> to  12) breaks the gdal3* packages in postgres yum repos (RHEL 8 and
> 9), so  we cannot use  certain packages from postgres el repositories
> and yum  update on machines with both repositories is broken.
>
> Will there be builds of the gdal3*  packages against the new armadillo
> 12 package from epel to solve that or do we have to do other things
> while we use postgres and epel repositories?

This has been fixed already in GDAL 3.6.4-6 RPMs.

> Btw. - why the epel guys do major upgrades of this library - isn't it
> completely against the el way of things? Was this ever discussed with
> the epel guys?

RHEL also do such updates with LLVM and CLANG, already broke poppler and
armadillo in the past, so my job is to rebuild the packages on our side
when such updates are released.

Regards,
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Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
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