gnome-vfs2 and howl

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:37 +0800, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:06:14 +0100, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> 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 at 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

I don't have any specific plans for that. Its gonna appear in rawhide
shortly though, I think.

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