tcl 8.5 alpha in fedora 7?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Feb 9 13:43:06 UTC 2007


Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:04:23AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Friday 09 February 2007 07:17, Marcela Maslanova wrote:
>>> I decided to go back to tcl8.4 and wait for final release.  Too many
>>> packages are broken
>>> and their upstream didn't start work on them.
>> Did you introduce an epoch or is there now a broken upgrade path?
> 
> I always thought introducing epochs in rawhide was bad--that this sort 
> of breakage was to be expected from time to time, and that users of 
> rawhide were expected to manually downgrade packages in these 
> instances.

I'm in a similar position with bittorrent in Rawhide. The GUI for 5.x 
doesn't work with wxPython 2.8 and I may have to revert to 4.4, which 
has a pygtk2-based GUI. Should I use an epoch or not?

Paul.




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