Re: New 0.99.3 RPMS available for RH Linux Intel/Sparc/Alpha 5.2

[Philippe Moutarlier <philippe enit fr>]

Quantum Seep <qseep@berserker.lensflare.com> writes:



Try to uninstall the old rpms first. Then reinstall the non-updated packages.
It looks like rpm thinks you are breaking a depandancy but it cannot discover you 
are fixing it at the same time by updating your librairies.

If you do, could you tell me if it works .  

> I downloaded all the new RPMS (every one which had changed in either
> version number or package number from 0.99.2) and tried to install them
> together on one command line.  Here's what I got:
> 
> failed dependencies:
>         libgdk-1.1.so.11 is needed by gtksamba-0.3.2pl1-1
>         libgtk-1.1.so.11 is needed by gtksamba-0.3.2pl1-1
>         libglib-1.1.so.12 is needed by ORBit-0.3.91-2
>         libglib-1.1.so.12 is needed by ORBit-devel-0.3.91-2
>         libglib-1.1.so.12 is needed by libgtop-0.99.2-1
>         libglib-1.1.so.12 is needed by libgtop-examples-0.99.2-1
>         libglib-1.1.so.12 is needed by gtksamba-0.3.2pl1-1
>         libgmodule-1.1.so.12 is needed by gtksamba-0.3.2pl1-1
> 
> Looks to me like some of these packages are depending on old versions of
> the modules.  All the problems are with packages that have not been
> updated.  Could you possibly rebuild these rpms and release them with an
> incremented package number?
> 
> Also, I wonder why the RPMS are so sensitive to library version numbers.
> Won't gtksamba worth libglib-1.1.so.13?  Isn't it possible to build the
> RPM so that it just requires a particular version *or later* of a
> particular package or library?
> 
I think there is no pb when you install things. Just when you update .


Philippe

> Does anyone have any idea how I can get around this problem?
> Help is appreciated.
> 
> /-------- Quantum Seep, qseep@iname.com ---
>   "His funny bone's connected to the M-bone"
>    PGP fingerprint: 5B 3B 7B EC AA 5B 4B 7F  65 7D 2A CD 69 11 29 2A
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>         FAQ: Frequently-Asked Questions at http://www.gnome.org/gnomefaq
>          To unsubscribe: mail gnome-list-request@gnome.org with 
>                        "unsubscribe" as the Subject.