Someone Explain: Whats going on X.org/XFree

[RaXeT]

Mike A. Harris wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, RaXeT wrote:
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>>I tried the xorg-x11 3_11.6 rpms with FC2 T1 and that wasn't my
>>happy experience. It didn't install and I couldn't determine if
>>the existing XFree86 config was being used after install. I had
>>tried to do rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-* and that didn't work... gave me
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>>rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-*
>>error: Failed dependencies:
>>       XFree86 is needed by (installed) xine-lib-1.0.0-0.5.rc3.fr
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>Bug in xine-lib rpm packaging.
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>>       XFree86 is needed by (installed) aalib-1.4rc5-4.fr
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>Bug in aalib rpm packaging.
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>>       XFree86 is needed by (installed) openoffice.org-1.1.0-30
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>Bug in openoffice.org packaging, fixed in 1.1.0-32.
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>>       XFree86-truetype-fonts >= 4.2.0 is needed by (installed) 
>>VFlib2-2.25.6-19
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>Bug in VFlib2 packaging, fixed in VFlib2-2.25.6-21
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>>       XFree86-xfs is needed by (installed) chkfontpath-1.9.10-2
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>Bug in chkfontpath, fixed in chkfontpath-1.10.0-1
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>>Then I made the mistake of doing rpm -Uvh --nodeps xorg-x11-*
>>and that didn't work so I went back to XFree86-4.3.0-59.
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>The proper way to do it, is to upgrade to /all/ of the current 
>rawhide bits.  openoffice might not be there yet.  Then do:
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>rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-*.rpm
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>Also, where did you get aalib and xine-libs from?  I'd like to 
>download the src.rpm packages for those and see why they are 
>broken.  I assume it is just a bogus dependancy, or incorrect 
>dependancy on the part of the packager
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Got them from http://yarrow.freshrpms.net/

Thanks

RaXeT