Two Problems

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Tue Nov 27 12:34:27 UTC 2007


On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:44:57 -0800, Eric Work wrote:

> Michael Schwendt & Tom "spot" Callaway,
> 
> >> 1. After updating the package source and spec file for gtkdatabox for 
> >> FC-5 and FC-6 and attempting a build, I realized that the pango version 
> >> available in those releases is too old.  Upstream only mentioned a 
> >> dependency on gtk+ 2.8 not pango 1.16.  I will inform upstream also but 
> >> how should I resolve this.  The question is how should I revert back to 
> >> an older version of the package?
> > 
> > If it built fine in the buildsys, we can delete the build from the
> > needsign repo and don't push it. In CVS, however, you can simply revert to
> > the files from the previous package release. Look at something like "cvs
> > log gtkdatabox.spec" for the tags you've applied before, check out the
> > older package with a given tag and commit the files to CVS HEAD again.
> 
> Michael, The build did not succeed so that made things a little simpler. 
>   I did as you suggested and updated CVS HEAD with the older version. 
> That was a pretty simple fix.  I also noticed that running "make build" 
> in any branch prior to FC-6 fails.  I'm guessing this is expected.

Yes, FC-5 and older have reached end-of-life. FC-6 will reach EOL
in early December.




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