Re: csound: plugin path problem

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 12:23 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 12:07 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 2008 6:51 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 01:00 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> > > > The problem was reported in  bugzilla entry
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407911 in December, and
> > > > there has been two duplicate bug reports since (one is mine, both now
> > > > merged).
> > >
> > > I'm not necessarily sure the manual and tutorial should depend on csound
> > > itself; there isn't really any run-time or build-time dependency on
> > > csound.  The only issue would be if you updated csound to a new version
> > > but the manual or tutorials were still the old version.  Thoughts?  Do
> > > you really want to have to download all 3MB of the manual every time a
> > > new build of csound hits the repos?
> > >
> > If they come from the same source package, then you'd have a newer
> > version of the manual and tutorial sitting on the server anyway, so
> > users who 'yum update' would get it?
> > 
> > One way to let users who insist on not updating the documentation
> > would be to make them Requires: csound = N-V without the release
> > component. Not sure that's recommended though.
> > 
> > PS there are some really old csound bugs in Bugzilla. Not sure some
> > are still relevant (from 2006). How we used to live before PKGDB
> > provided easy access to package-specific bugs...
> 
> That's what I'm trying to clean up; except that F-8 build repos are
> broken (tk-devel depends on a newer tcl-devel version than is present in

I lied; tcl has been updated to 8.4.17 in koji apparently, and tk has
been rebuilt but hasn't hit the repos yet (it's in f8-updates-testing).

> F-8 repos) and F-9 is broken (pdflatex can't find some config files).
> Whee.

Seems like a BuildRequires: tetex tetex-latex doesn't pull in the
package that generates pdflatex.fmt.  Not sure what's going on there.
Since F9 now uses texlive, that change is probably part of the issue.

Dan