On Tuesday 05 January 2010 16:38:01 Rob Kampen wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > For some time now updates on my CentOS box had skipped exiv2. Yesterday > > I decided to do something about it, so I removed it - together with > > gwenview, digikam and, IIRC, libexiv2. That sounded reasonable, so I > > accepted the removal, then re-installed gwenview and digikam, which, of > > course, pulled in the two exiv2 packages. The version number of exiv2 > > sounded familiar, but I assumed that it would bring in the best-match > > version, and continued. This morning, seeing that more updates were > > announced, I ran update again. To my surprise, exiv2 was skipped, as > > before. > > > > I'm curious as to what could be happening here. > > I too had this issue, although my need for exiv2 was gnome-commander. > Thus I too removed exiv2 and its dependents. As I did not need the > packages I have left them uninstalled. I think the issue is a change in > the exiv2 rpm spec file in regards to libraries needed or included, thus > as both come from rf - suggest post a request to them. HTH > Thanks. I've mailed them. My CentOS box spends most of its time doing quite mundane file/print/IMAP serving. Just occasionally I have something that needs a bit more oomph than this laptop can manage, and I turn to the CentOS box for those. It's relatively rare, so this hasn't been a high priority for me - just a niggle. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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