Plan for OpenOffice 2.0.3

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 10:48:12 UTC 2006


On 7/4/06, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:02 +0200, Ambrogio wrote:
> > Il giorno lun, 03/07/2006 alle 07.09 -0500, Don Maxwell ha scritto:
> > > On 7/3/06, Ambrogio <fn050202 at flashnet.it> wrote:
> > > > Il giorno lun, 03/07/2006 alle 11.34 +0200, Henry Ritzlmayr ha scritto:
> > > > > Why don´t you use the RPMs provided by openoffice.org?
> > > > > RPMs for Fedora are ripped on certain functionality (IP isues).
> > > > > I am using the upstream RPMs for a while - and they work like a charm.
> > > > I don't understand.
> > > > I'm already using OpenOffice from openoffice.org (2.0.1 adn 2.0.2), but
> > > > everytime yum tell me that openoffice should be upgraded.
> > > >
> > > >

> >
> You really have two choices here.
>
> 1.  Continue as you are, using the upstream version of OOo, and live
> with the discrepancies between the upstream version you are using and
> the version in FC that you see and are having to work around.
>
> 2.  Remove the upstream version and install the version from FC. Then
> yum will keep it updated and the complaints about needing updated that
> you currently see will disappear.
>

3. Ask upstream to make their packages compatible, explaining the problem.

-- 
imalone




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