Hi list,

I'm mostly done with RSEL 7.3. I expect the result to be synced to the
mirrors later today. Tomorrow  I'll switch over from 7.2 to 7.3.

Next steps will be building new kernel rpms for the raspberry and odroid
families of devices. and then making new images for those devices.

The base repo already contains all updates till today. (I thought it was
a wast of resources to build packages that are already outdated at their
release date)

All in all there are now 512 new packages build for 7.3, of which 30
needed patching.


notable changes
==========
* kernel - In the past we had a patched version of the upstream kernel
to use for headers. This needed to be updated, the new 7.3 packages did
not build with the old headers. I patched the kernel srpm differently
than before. There a no specific arm patches any more, but it now only
produces kernel-headers. This means that packages that depend on other
artifacts from the kernel source now cannot install anymore. In practice
this is only 'tuned'.
* glibc - needed patches to build. before it build out of the box.
* valgrind was not able to update to the new version. It stays on the
same version as in 7.2
* mesa-private-llvm was not able to update to the new version. I have
found one version that does build.
* prelink - fails the tests when build against 7.3. I'm not sure how
this can be. It is removed from 7.3
* python - I found an error in the regex engine that is specific to
32bits builds. This has been patched.


other news
=======
* I no longer ship patches and an overview of what has changed in the
packages tree. This should all be in git:
https://github.com/redsleeve-linux/el7
* in stead of the mantis site we will try to use github issues.


Merry Christmas,

Jacco
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