-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0087 2012-01-11 07:16:12 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : grid-packaging-tools Product : Fedora EPEL 4 Version : 3.5 Release : 2.el4 URL : http://www.gridpackagingtools.com/ Summary : Grid Packaging Tools (GPT) Description : GPT is a collection of packaging tools built around an XML based packaging data format. This format provides a straight forward way to define complex dependency and compatibility relationships between packages. The tools provide a means for developers to easily define the packaging data and include it as part of their source code distribution. Binary packages can be automatically generated from this data. The packages defined by GPT are compatible with other packages and can be easily converted.
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Update to Globus Toolkit 5.2
Many of the changes implemented by upstream in this release, such as the removal of the flavour tags in the library names and the support for standard installation paths, were already present in the Fedora packages of earlier releases using patches. This update is backwards compatible and does not introduce any soname bumps.
The most important change is the handling of threads. In earlier releases the threading model was chosen at compilation time, and the model used by the libraries in Fedora and EPEL was using pthreads. In this release the threading model is instead chosen at runime, either by using API calls or by setting environment variables. The default model in the new release is the forking model, but also the pthread model is available.
In order to preserve the behaviour of applications linked to previous versions, versioned symbols have been introduced so that the new libraries will switch to the pthread threading model automatically when used by applications that were linked to earlier versions.
Upstream's release notes are available here: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/5.2/5.2.0/rn/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update grid-packaging-tools' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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