On Thu, 27 May 2010 22:01:09 +0100, Jonathan wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed that if I enable the adobe repository, the AdobeReader > quickly gets pulled in when installing the flash plugin on a 64 bit > machine, since it seems to be providing libstdc++.so.6. This just > seems a little bit suspect to me. > > Eg. if I run > > yum -v install nspluginwrapper.x86_64 nspluginwrapper.i686 > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libcurl.i686 > > and then look at the output, I see > > --> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3) for package: > 1:cups-libs-1.4.3-6.fc13.i686 > Searching pkgSack for dep: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3) > TSINFO: Marking AdobeReader_sve-8.1.7-1.i486 as install for > 1:cups-libs-1.4.3-6.fc13.i686 > > > It seems a little like Adobe is trying to install Reader via a > backdoor dependency? It's a packaging mistake in a package that hasn't seen much testing. If they include local copies of libs like libstdc++, they ought to filter the RPM Provides. They also provide several other libs, not limited to libgcc_s.so.1 $ repoquery --provides AdobeReader_sve|grep ^lib|wc -l 59 $ repoquery --whatprovides 'libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3)' AdobeReader_nor-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_ita-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_suo-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_kor-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_sve-0:8.1.7-1.i486 libstdc++-0:4.4.4-2.fc13.i686 AdobeReader_dan-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_ptb-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_chs-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_esp-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_nld-0:8.1.7-1.i486 AdobeReader_cht-0:8.1.7-1.i486 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines