yum did a silent update of gimp to 2.0?

Clint Harshaw clint at penguinsolutions.org
Fri Aug 27 23:46:33 UTC 2004


Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I had been carefully NOT installing the gimp-2.0, primarily because 
> gimp-print has not kept pace and I WAS useing use the gimp-1.2 to 
> print most of my digital photo's.  It did a great job of that.
> 
> Imagine my surprise when I hit the icon for the gimp today to see 
> about the quality of an invoice scan I was about to send, and was 
> greeted by the gimp-2.0 initial installer/configurator!
> 
> So now I cannot print from the gimp.  Is it going to take another year 
> to get gimp-print brought up to speed with the new gimp?
> 
> Or did I miss an announcement of a gimp-print thats compatible with 
> gimp-2.0?
> 
> This is putting a serious 'hitch in my gitalong'.
> 

Are you using yum as a nightly service? If you are, check your 
/etc/yum.conf to see if you have exclude=gimp*

There should be no updates to any of the packages beginning with gimp if 
that exclude line is in there.

Hope this helps,
Clint





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