fc6 gaim update is BROKEN!

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Mar 29 01:47:48 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:44 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 18:19 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Jon Escombe wrote:
> > > Warren Togami <wtogami <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > > 
> > >> I'm sorry that this isn't working out for you.  It worked very well for 
> > >> me and a few other testers.  Nobody complained about these problems 
> > >> about this version sitting in rawhide for quite a while now.
> > > 
> > > Just one small issue to add, this update segfaulted for me due to a clash with
> > > the beta5 version of gaim-meanwhile that's still in extras. Possibly ought to be
> > > a dependancy somewhere that required an update to the plugins too?
> > > 
> > > Appreciate that this would be hard to spot unless you actually use the meanwhile
> > > plugin, so not really complaining, just fyi (& hoping for an updated plugin at
> > > some point ;)
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jon.
> 
> > gaim-meanwhile as a separate package will disappear when the distro 
> > merges, because then libmeanwhile will be available for gaim to build 
> > against.
> 
> 	That's nice but, in the meanwhile (gag - sorry), we're screwed?  I just
> suddenly slammed into gaim segfaulting and went searching and found the
> previous message.  I can now confirm that, once I removed gaim-meanwhile
> and gaim-meanwhile-ibm (some internal configs for IBM people), gaim now
> comes up clean.  But I don't have access to my Sametime accounts, now.
> Which means I've got to get sanity (a standalone Sametime client) up and
> configured until this bolux gets shot and straightened out.  It's broken
> right now.

I already said I was fixing it.

> 
> 	I guess it needs to be punted over to the Extras folks to straighten
> out.  I don't see anything on that list as of yet (adding a cross post -
> sorry).  Has this been filed in bugzilla for gaim-meanwhile in the
> meantime?

No, but I'm fixing it.

josh




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