Handling symbols file

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On 19/11/05 12:01, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 
> 
> On November 4, 2019 11:24:39 PM UTC, Steven Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> >On Monday, November 4, 2019 2:14:04 A.M. CST Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >> On Monday, November 4, 2019 1:24:19 AM EST Steven Robbins wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > I've uploaded exiv2 to experimental and many builds failed due to
> >changed
> >> > symbols.
> >> > 
> >> > Is this the up-to-date explanation for symbols files:
> >> > https://qt-kde-team.pages.debian.net/symbolfiles.html ?   I don't
> >see
> >> > explicit details on what to do with all the architecture-specific
> >diff
> >> > files.
> >> 
> >> Yes.  I believe it is.
> >> 
> >> If you look at the "Updating multiple symbols files at once" section
> >you'll
> >> see it also discusses feeding multiple build logs to the
> >symbolshelper at
> >> once. 
> >
> >Ah yes, thanks.  I'd suggest that deserves to be in its own section;
> >something 
> >like "Updating symbols file for multiple architectures".
> >
> >> When you do them in a batch (you'll want all the architectures), it
> >> will handle the arch specific aspects of it.
> >
> >I used "getbuildlog" successfully and got 21 build logs.  But the
> >batchpatch 
> >step fails:
> >
> >$ pkgkde-symbolshelper batchpatch -v 0.27.2 /tmp/exiv2_0.27.2-1_*.log
> >Looking for patches and reading them ....
> >----------------------------------
> >| Processing libexiv2-27 package |
> >----------------------------------
> >pkgkde-symbolshelper: error: input symbol file template must have 
> >'SymbolsHelper-Confirmed' header
> >pkgkde-symbolshelper: error: libexiv2-27 patching FAILED. Will NOT
> >continue.
> >
> >
> >Now what???
> 
> I think if you add it manually and re-run the symbolshelper, it should work.
> 
> Scott K

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