On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 08:15:56 -0500 (EST) "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Andre Costa wrote: > > >As a final suggestion, YMMV but I believe you don't need to install > >all 30 packages. Here I have: > > No no no no no! Do not mix and match XFree86 releases. There > are more than just code changes. The actual font packages > themselves, and many other subpackages contain all sorts of > changes that are necessary for proper installation and operation. > > Mixing and matching some of them might or might not work, but > increases the chances incredibly that you'll end up with a broken > installation. > > Do _not_ file bugs in bugzilla if mixing different XFree86 > release RPMs. ... I believe I was misunderstood again, please apologize. I was not suggesting Jon mixed XFree86 packages from different releases. I intended to say this minimal set should work, but it was assumed these would be *the only* XFree86 packages on the system (please notice by the 'rpm -qa | grep XFree' below that this is indeed the case on my system). > >~ rpm -qa | grep XFree > >XFree86-libs-data-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-xfs-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-xauth-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-devel-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-libs-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-font-utils-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >XFree86-tools-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > > > >(of course, I have all mentioned dependencies installed as well). > > > >I am not sure, but you probably need updated versions of fontconfig > >and freetype too. > > Absolutely required. > > >Last but not least, maybe you're indeed getting RawHide wrong; > >it suffers from the same conceptual flaw all RPM-based distros > >suffer: there is no automatic way of retrieving all packages > >necessary for a specific installation because dependencies > >cannot be resolved automatically (a la Debian's apt-get). > >RawHide is merely a repository for bleeding-edge packages. > > Which is very much intentional. Rawhide is not intended to be > used in that manner. You can consider it a flaw if you like, but > it isn't. You just would like rawhide to be something that it is > not. There's nothing wrong wanting something like that though. Right. As for me, I am ok with RawHide being what it is today, even if it does mean sometimes I cannot install some packages -- that's the side-effect of being a repository for bleeding-edge packages. My main complaint is not with RawHide itself, but instead it's about RPM in general lacking the ability to automatically resolve *all* (and this means recursion) dependencies for a package. But this is OT for this list, and certainly something not trivial so solve. Hope I have cleared all misunderstandings my statements might have caused. Please apologize for any confusion. Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
