On 27/07/07, Rennie deGraaf <rennie.degraaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently updated to the latest version of libexif and libexif-devel > (version 0.6.12-5) for Fedora Core 5 i386 using 'yum update', and now > applications that use libexif don't recognize the EXIF tags on my pictures. > I have tested eog and gthumb; while both still display images correctly, > neither recognizes EXIF tags. Other applications that parse EXIF tags > without using libexif (such as gqview and exiftool) continue to display EXIF > tags properly, proving that they have not somehow been stripped from the > images that I was trying to view. > > My version of gthumb is a self-compiled CVS snapshot from November 2006, but > the rest of the programs mentioned are the latest FC5 updates. I tried > re-compiling my version of gthumb, but that didn't help. > > Any suggestions on how to proceed from here? Is the latest libexif update > broken? Does the stock FC5 gthumb work? Downgrade to the original FC5 libexif-0.6.12-3.2.1 and see whether that "fixes" it. The libexif-0.6.12-5 update is a security-fix, see "rpm -q --changelog libexif". There is a slight chance that a security related patch breaks the code.
