Re: Beagle 0.2.6, ppt files not being indexed using Fedora Core 5 installation

[Sean Carlos <sean carlos gmail com>]

Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 19:01 +0200, Sean Carlos wrote:
> > Well, sort of.. I have
> >
> > libgsf-1.so.113
>
> That's different.  Those numbers are essentially version numbers, so
> there's no guarantee that .so.1 is compatible with .so.113 (and by
> convention it means that they're incompatible).
>
> > Performing
> >
> > ln -s libgsf-1.so.113 libgsf-1.so.1
>
> This could cause crashes, for the reason I mentioned above.
>
> > Now, I'm out of my league - is the 113 suffix a Fedora packaging issue I 
> > should report in the Fedora bugzilla?   Should the Fedora rpm have 
> > created the symbolic link I note above?  Or is this an issue of beagle 
> > intolerance of the final version number?  A full list of "libgsf" files 
> > follows:
>
> The bug is in your gsf-sharp.  If that comes from Fedora packages, then
> it'd be a bug in their packages, because the gsf-sharp package says that
> the library is "libgsf-1.so.1" and not "libgsf-1.so.113".
>
> Joe

Thank you Joe.  I suspected brute force was not the right solution!

I have logged this issue in Red Hat's Fedora Core bug tracker.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193810

- Sean