Re: video scrensaver

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:17 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> >>     yum install "perl(XML::Parser)"
> >>
> > I tried both methods - neither one does anything (I get "Nothing to
> > do" for perl, perl-XML-parser and "perl(XML::parser)".  I would think
> > that meant that they are installed, but I still get errors on them
> > (and others).
> 
> It's case sensitive.  So that p in parser needs to be uppercase. :)
> 
> >>     yum-builddep gnome-screensaver
> > 
> > Same result.
> 
> CentOS/RHEL may have an older broken yum-builddep.  I know that issue
> was fixed upstream in yum-utils a while back.  Oh well, the price of
> stability is sometimes living without some fixes I guess.


> 
> > I went to http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/SRPMS/
> > and pulled down the gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.fc6.src.rpm

Try uninstalling, and installing ?

rpm -e --nodeps gnome-screensaver
yum update yum
yum install gnome-screensaver .

> 
> Eeek.  I'd avoid mixing distros like that unless you're comfortable
> sorting out differing deps.  Granted, CentOS 5 and Fedora Core 6 are
> pretty similar.  Still, that might cause you more trouble than it's
> worth.

Agreed. Additionally, CentOS to my knowledge package a major amount of
"extra" packages over RHEL .

For RHEL, you may want to checkout : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/


> 
> >, but after I installed it, I got this:
> >
> > $ rpmbuild -bp --target=`uname -m` gnome-screensaver.spec
> > Building target platforms: x86_64
> > Building for target x86_64
> > error: Failed build dependencies:
> >         gnome-menus-devel>= 2.11.1 is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
> >         libexif-devel>= 0.6.12 is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
> >         libXScrnSaver-devel is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
> >         libXmu-devel is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
> >         perl-XML-Parser is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
> >         nss-devel is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
> >         intltool is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
> 
> I still don't know if updating will solve the issue you have, so you
> may want to look more at whether it's likely to before spending a lot
> of time with this.
> 
> If it were me, I'd first try rebuilding the current CentOS package to
> ensure that works.  After that, I'd install the source rpm, edit the
> spec file to update the version, and place the updated
> gnome-screensaver source in the rpm source dir.  Then you should be
> able to build an updated package using rpmbuild -ba
> gnome-screensaver.spec.
> 
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