On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:39 +0800, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just tried upgrading my version of howl to the latest 0.9.8 by
> downloading the source and the current SRPM, replacing the appropriate
> lines and recompiling. All went well but the gnome-vfs2 had a
> dependancy on libhowl-0.9.6.so.1
>
> So downloaded the SRPM for that to see if it was in there or a compile
> time dep. Its seems its the later as the spec file specificly mentions
> the >= howl and the associated packages. If I do a 'rpm -q --requires
> gnome-vfs2' the specific library is mentioned.
>
> [root@morpheus i386]# rpm -Uvh howl-0.9.8-1.FC3.i386.rpm
> howl-devel-0.9.8-1.FC3.i386.rpm howl-libs-0.9.8-1.FC3.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> libhowl-0.9.6.so.1 is needed by (installed) gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.i386
>
> So my question is should I be able to upgrade howl to a later version
> of is gnome-vfs2 dependant on that particular version. If I should be
> able to should I bugzilla it? I did a quick search and found a similar
> problems with gamin at bug #140679 but nothing specific to howl.
>
> I want a version later than 0.9.6 to fix a problem that shows up in
> gnomemeeting 1.2.0. For the moment I have just upgraded with a
> --nodeps, not sure what havoc it'll cause with gnome-vf2 but for the
> moment aren't actually running X on this box.
Howl 0.9.6 doesn't handle upgrades like that because the library
filename is "libhowl-0.9.6.so.1". An upgrade would break all apps
linking to the old version.
I think this has been fixed in later versions of how, but atm you can't
upgrade without also rebuilding all apps/libs that link to it.
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