Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-30 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sat, 7 May 2011 16:00:36 +0100 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore. Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tom Lane wrote: but it hasn't done anything for the problem that packages that actually need RPC functionality will now FTBFS for lack of a BuildRequires on libtirpc, if not need actual source patches (maybe they were assuming netdb.h would pull in rpc/netdb.h, for instance). And if they

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-08 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at writes: Tom Lane wrote: but it hasn't done anything for the problem that packages that actually need RPC functionality will now FTBFS for lack of a BuildRequires on libtirpc, if not need actual source patches (maybe they were assuming netdb.h would pull in

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:52:35AM -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Thu, 05 May 2011 15:39:21 +0200 Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reported as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702366 and http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702354 Well, here's NEWS: * The RPC implementation in libc is

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:52 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Thu, 05 May 2011 15:39:21 +0200 Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reported as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702366 and http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702354 Well,

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: No the question is what do the glibc maintainers think they are doing introducing changes like this in a branched release. This sort of stuff should be in rawhide. These guys are in

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Well, if they think this is their beta test period, it still merits asking why the heck this type of change is going in now. I agree with Dave that this looks like development material, not near-release bug fixing. It's particularly bad

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com writes: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Well, if they think this is their beta test period, it still merits asking why the heck this type of change is going in now. I agree with Dave that this looks like development material, not

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 19:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com writes: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Well, if they think this is their beta test period, it still merits asking why the heck this type of change is going in now. I agree with Dave

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com writes: sounds like a perfectly good reason to file negative karma on the 'revised' update, then. Really - if you think the update is causing significant problems, file negative karma, raise a stink about it. We don't have to accept the update. Done, but

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 19:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com writes: sounds like a perfectly good reason to file negative karma on the 'revised' update, then. Really - if you think the update is causing significant problems, file negative karma, raise a stink about

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com said: In fact, you can see this has already happened: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.13.90-11 has -6 karma at present. When it hit -3, it got unpushed. Yeah, but -10 had the drop of RPC, so the damage is already done.

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 23:27 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com said: In fact, you can see this has already happened: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.13.90-11 has -6 karma at present. When it hit -3, it got unpushed. Yeah,

F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Just a quick FYI: If you haven't already gotten Fedora 15's latest glibc-headers package, you may want to wait for 2.13.90-11. Here's why: glibc-headers-2.13.90-10.x86_64 no longer includes any of the /usr/include/rpc/*.h files. Contrast with glibc-headers-2.13.90-9.x86_64, where there are 18:

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-05 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Thu, 05 May 2011 15:39:21 +0200 Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reported as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702366 and http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702354 Well, here's NEWS: * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working but new programs cannot be linked with

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-05 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Pete Zaitcev zait...@redhat.com wrote: The question is: what is TI-RPC and where one finds it? Is it even packaged in Fedora? It's the libtirpc package. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F15's /usr/include/rpc has disappeared; netdb.h uncompilable

2011-05-05 Thread Dave Airlie
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:52 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Thu, 05 May 2011 15:39:21 +0200 Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reported as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702366 and http://bugzilla.redhat.com/702354 Well, here's NEWS: * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old