Re: [Breakage!] Red Hat packaging

[Chris Chabot <chabotc reviewboard com>]

On further trying, the same is true for libglade (ps, no -devel?).

Also, gnome-vfs.

And if you do do rpm -ivh gnome-vfs-1.9.4, it has a file conflict with 
/usr/share/man/man5/gnome-vfs-mime.5.gz

gnome-vfs-devel, ofcource has to be -Uvh'd again.

It might be smart to take a cue / clue from redhat (rawhide or 
gnomehide) here, and rename all those conflicting libraries to ....2 ? 
(GConf2, gnome-vfs2, libglade2, etc).

This would save us, and all users willing to try these packages out, a 
LOT of headaches.


Another problem that will occur btw, in this '-ivh base lib and posibly 
-Uvh devel lib), is that users will not be able to compile gnome 1.x 
apps anymore... which kinda ruins the whole parallel gnome 1 / 2 setup 
that people are aiming for.



Chris Chabot wrote:

> Looking at these rpm's. Don't they seem potentialy very dangerous for 
> the average user with gnome 1.4 installed, and has no advanced knowledge?
>
> Forinstance, you have to rpm -ivh GConf-1.1.6, however you need to rpm 
> -Uvh GConf-devel-1.1.6.
> (or rpm -e GConf-devel, and rpm -ivh both).
>
> Not doing so, removes libgconf-1.so.1, which in turn breaks gnome-vfs, 
> nautilus, gthumb, control-center, galeon, eel, bonobo-conf, etc etc ...
>
> The same is true for a few other packages... I am just very much 
> afraid an beginning user will do a
>
>    rpm -[U | i]vh *.rpm --force
>
> And end up with a severely broken (non functioning) system! (and as we 
> hopefully already realise, given the option of forcing installs, they 
> will when they dispair when they cant do it the-right-way, we all have 
> been there right?).
>
> All in all, a very good start (and big thnx for all the huge effort!) 
> however, to put them on the public gnome server already? Not sure if 
> thats to smart yet ;-/
>
>    -- Chris
>
>
>
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