On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 15:43 +0200, Fidel Leon wrote: >> On Monday 28 April 2014 08:31:19 piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: >> > Recent libgcrypt update to libgcrypt-1.6.1-2.fc21 doesn't allow you to >> > install google-chrome current version in rawhide. The maintainer >> > specifically removed the old .so compatibility with this new release. Is >> > there any other way how to workaround this without downgrading the >> package? >> >> +1, it's a quite disruptive change, it breaks compatibility for a VERY MAJOR >> software product! We're not talking about an obscure app living under a rock in >> Github, we're talking about Google Chrome! > > Given the description of the actual changes behind the soname bump: > > "Unfortunately the rebase bumps soname to libgcrypt.so.20 due to > dropping some long-ago deprecated API calls. This should not break > builds of any reasonably current software." > > I suspect the ugly hack of symlinking should work, for Chrome. But > really, Google ought to do a new build. Or you could use Chromium; > there's a COPR that carries it at > http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/churchyard/chromium-russianfedora/ , > though I can't vouch for the quality/safety personally at all (I don't > use Chrome or Chromium). How about filing a bug upstream i.e telling google about it? Might not get you a fixed build ASAP but it is better then relying on workarounds ... -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
