On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:06:14 +0100, Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks for that Alexander, Didn't think it would be that easy :-( It appears, as far as the rpm dependancies goes, the only one that is affected is the gnome-vfs2 package. At least as far as my FC3 box is concerned. Are there any plans to upgrade howl in either FC3 as a update or in devel? It has some interesting bugs that affect at least the new version of gnomemeeting. looks like the library versioning stuff was fixed in 0.9.8 Cheers Pete
