"So it shouldn't break anything else."

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 8:52 AM Radovan Sroka <rsr...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> libfastjson is rsyslog specific library. So it should break anything else.
> I did a mistake because I didn't group updates for libfastjson and for
> rsyslog. Rsyslog was broken yesterday on fedora 26 but now it should be
> everything OK. I will be really careful with other branches and also with
> another updates in future.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 4:36 AM Troy Curtis Jr <troycurti...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:49 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <
>> domi...@greysector.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Fedora,
>>>
>>>
>> ..snip..
>>
>>
>>> This breaks, for example, rsyslog-8.30.0-3, which was compiled against
>>> libfastjson-0.99.7, but didn't go out together with it, so when I ran
>>> dnf update, the set contained only new rsyslog, which, when run with
>>> libfastjson-0.99.6 (same SONAME!) simply dies:
>>> # rsyslogd -n
>>> rsyslogd: symbol lookup error: rsyslogd: undefined symbol:
>>> fjson_global_do_case_sensitive_comparison
>>>
>>> Dear maintainers, please use abipkgdiff when doing library updates.
>>> Upstreams do break ABI without bumping SONAME sometimes.
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not sure if it is a real issue or not.  A user in #fedora got bit by
>> this where his rsyslog was upgraded but not his libfastjson.  Updating to
>> libfastjson-0.99.7 allowed rsyslog to startup and begin logging.  But it
>> appeared to die quickly.  This happened at least twice.
>>
>> There could be other things going on with his setup, but I thought I'd
>> point out a potential issue to be on the lookout for even if the missing
>> symbol has been resolved.
>>
>> Troy
>>
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> Radovan Sroka
> Associate Software Engineer | Security Technologies | Red hat, Inc.
>
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Radovan Sroka
Associate Software Engineer | Security Technologies | Red hat, Inc.
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