OpenOffice 3.1

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 15:17 -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>> Hello,
>>    Normally I'm quite happy to wait for new releases upstream to trickle 
>> into fedora, however in this case, I'd LOVE to know if 3.1 fixes an 
>> issue with OO over samba. 
> 
> Without details of the problem its hard to say, though 3.1 does have an
> alternative file locking implementation grafted on, so if the problem
> was file-locking related, 3.1 might fix your problem. Though it does
> matter of course how you're working over samba, whether mounted as a
> filesystem or through gio/gvfs. i.e. it might even be nothing to do
> really with OOo, but something else in the stack and it won't matter
> what version of OOo is used.

mounted via an entry in fstab, not gio/gvfs... Files opened over the 
network are opened read-only no matter what mount options I give. 
Currently these are what we have...

cifs	rw,username=guest,noperm,noacl,defaults,pass=''

> 
>>    So are there plans to update f10 OpenOffice to 3.1? 
> 
> No, no such plans.

Ok, thanks for the info.


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