Re: [smartmontools-support] smartmontools 5.42 released

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Alex Samorukov wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 06:25 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Christian Franke wrote:
>>> Dear smartmontools users,
>>>
>>> release 5.42 of smartmontools is now available [1].
>>>
>> I uploaded a new tarball with autoconf/automake files (aclocal.m4,
>> configure, Makefile.in) regenerated.
>>
>> MD5 old: ce5690a1ba58efbe6db1bb784e4e20c3
>> MD5 new:4460bf9a79a1252ff5c00ba52cf76b2a
>>
>> Unfortunately the old tarball was built on a system without pkg-config
>> installed. The PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro was not expanded in configure.
>>
>> As a consequence, the detection of systemd presence for 'make install'
>> target was broken, sorry. The build of the executables were not 
>> affected.
> Hi Christian,
>
> May i ask in the feature not to do this way? I updated FreeBSD port 
> after release and then i was on the road when checksum  was changed. 
> So i got a lot of reports about broken port. Also it making a big 
> problem for 3-rd party dist. files mirrors, often they will never 
> recheck the file when it already mirrored. Currently port checksum was 
> fixed but in the feature its better to release 5.42.1 or 5.43 in case 
> of such problems.
>
>

Sorry!

For the future, a release with a new number will be generated even if 
the bug is only in the files not in SVN.

Cheers,
Christian