Subject: Re: Install Redhat RPM for abiword 0.9.4.1-1
From: Larry Reznick (lreznick@interactdevices.com)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 10:25:13 CDT
Without knowing the innards yet, I suspect that whatever is checking the
dependencies is being too picky about the version match. Probably testing for
== instead of for >= or something like that. Anyway, this makes me think that
some kind of software is needed that periodically checks the currently
installed rpm versions against the latest version available and advises,
optionally downloading the latest versions, including dependency checking.
Yet another project (YAP), eh?
--Larry
Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> According to Larry Reznick <lreznick@interactdevices.com>:
> > Ok, this is getting stupid now. I just downloaded & tried to install the
> > ximian.2.i386.rpm and it complained about needing libgal.so.13. But,
> > I've already installed libgal.so.14. Can't these things detect that the
> > installed version exceeds the required version? How many versions of the
> > same thing must I install?
>
> The problems lie more in libgal than in AbiWord. libgal is moving to fast
> and too much. Every month is a new MAJOR version released. With the library
> versionning scheme in UNIX this is causing lot of trouble.
>
> Note that when jumping from libc5 to glibc2 (aka libc6) 3 years ago, the
> problem was the same with ANY software.
>
> Hub
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