5.1 -> 5.2 move

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Fri Jun 6 08:13:05 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:59:26AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
> This is VERY bad.  As you guys in EPEL have already no doubt figured  
> out, there either needs to be a new libgtkhtml-3.8.so.15 or everything  
> that was compiled against gtkhtml3 will need to be recompiled.  Red Hat  
> recompiled all the things for EL5.2 already ... but this is really  
> unsatisfactory as there are hundreds of 3rd party apps that will need to  
> be recompiled.
>
> The problem is (as Bill Nottingham already pointed out) that several  
> files are in a location that would conflict if a compatibility package  
> were produced. The bad areas are:
>
> /usr/share/gtkhtml-3.8
> /usr/share/locale/*/MESSAGES/

What is the plan for /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.8.so.15, put it in another
directory ans ship something in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/?

--
Pat




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