On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 16:02 +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 20:14 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/XorgUpdateFix > > Hmm, not sure the sky is really falling, at least over here. > > My few FC4 boxes have had three xorg-x11 updates this month: > > 6.8.2-37.FC4.45 > 6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1 > 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 > > None of them produced any errors (using yum). What is supposed to go > wrong there? Also, you say that duplicate xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU packages > can cause problems. I checked, and do indeed have: > > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1 > xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 > > This is annoying, but it turns out they're identical anyway: > > # rpm -V xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1 > .......T /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3 > # rpm -V xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 > > What problems should I expect? Future upgrades will are very likely to fail ... > The duplication only exists in the RPM > DB, the newer package obviously overwrote the older one (which still > verifies ok, apart from the timestamp). The duplicate DB entry is easily > removed with > > # rpm -e --justdb xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1 ... without manual intervention ... > I don't seem to get the gravity of the situation... ;) ... wait until libGLU changes ... Ralf
