[Slackbuilds-users] libvirt 4.6.0 is a mess

[Didier Spaier]

On 08/17/2018 06:41 PM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
> On 17/08/2018 18:35, Didier Spaier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 08/17/2018 06:20 PM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been contacting Robby, but since I haven't received any reply nor I see any correction in the git, I decided to come to the list, so you can take action before the next public update.
>>>
>>> With version 4.6.0, libvirt has switched from yajl to Jansson.
>>> Unfortunately, this switch comes with more problems than it solves:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614959
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614569
>>>
>>> I've actually experienced the bugs mentioned in the above threads.
>>>
>>> libvirt team has already switched back for yajl for the next version.
>>>
>>> What I propose is that you withdraw the 4.6.0 update.
>>> Alternatively, you can update for version 4.5.0; the only change needed is changing back to yajl in REQUIRES and --with-yajl.
>>
>> But the version in  https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/libraries/libvirt/ is 4.0.O at time of writing so I don't understand what you request Robby to do, nor why there should be a correction in git.
>>
>> Did you request an upgrade to 4.6.0 to Robby already, and want to withdraw this request?
>>
>> Didier
> 
> I'd like those to be withdrawn:
> 
> https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/commit/?id=dee223978
> https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/commit/?id=92f08be5b
> 
> before the public update.

I looked in the 14.2 branch, sorry.

Didier