Bug 178760
Summary: | pwlib fails to keep version info | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | james |
Component: | pwlib | Assignee: | Alexander Larsson <alexl> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2006-01-24 08:24:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
james
2006-01-24 03:43:31 UTC
Its not generally supported to install multiple versions of the same package. Gnomemeeting might work if you rebuild it against the newer pwlib though. If you want to use ekiga on fc4 i recommend that you first remove pwlib, openh323 and gnomemeeting packages from your system. Sure enough, I could manually install both gnomemeeting and ekiga by first removing packages and then taking packages apart and installing components or forcing installs.... but that's not the point. > Its not generally supported to install multiple versions of the same package. But it would not have been a problems if pwlib kept proper version information, would it? > Gnomemeeting might work if you rebuild it against the newer pwlib though. The gnomemeeting package might install if fedora built it against the newer pwlib too. "Automated" tools that require manual intervention are either "broken" or they are NOT "automated". "not gnerally supported" suggests "sometimes supported, but you never know" - which is why administration becomes a nightmare. Eliminating version information suggests "version does not matter". Allowing some package to specify a version suggests "version matters". Ok, which is it: version matters? or does not matter? The point would be to find a solution that works - rebuild gnomemeeting, version pwlib, fix dependency specs, or _something_. "Not my problem" is NOT a solution. I'm not sure what you are so worked up about. Its all very simple: pwlib 1.7.x and pwlib 1.9.x are not compatible and cannot be installed at the same time. This means you cannot have gnomemeeting and ekiga on the same system. Someone could fix this by doing lots of development work to make pwlib versioned, but I doubt there is anyone who wants to spend time on the old version. If you dislike the pwlib backwards compat strategy, complaint to its developers. However, neighter ekiga nor pwlib 1.9 are in fc4, so this is not a problem for fc4. In FC5 we will not ship gnomemeeting, and ekiga will conflict with it so gnomemeeting will be auto-removed when you install ekiga. |