Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:30:41 GMT From: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/157879: libgeom ABI change without version bump in 8.2 Message-ID: <201106141630.p5EGUfqh037909@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201106141640.p5EGe7MU074073@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 157879 >Category: kern >Synopsis: libgeom ABI change without version bump in 8.2 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 14 16:40:06 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ben Kaduk >Release: 8.2 >Organization: MIT SIPB >Environment: n/a >Description: The Debian/kFreeBSD folks discovered some issues with their grub breaking upon a move from 8.1 to 8.2; it seems to have been tracked down to an ABI change in libgeom that did not have an accompanying version bump, per http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libgeom/libgeom.h?r1=182843&r2=202454 and http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/06/msg00141.html (and the rest of the traffic on debbug #630107). I'm reporting it here so it doesn't get lost. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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