libexif-0.6.12-5 not working on FC5/i386

[Michael Schwendt]

On 27/07/07, Rennie deGraaf <rennie.degraaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently updated to the latest version of libexif and libexif-devel
> (version 0.6.12-5) for Fedora Core 5 i386 using 'yum update', and now
> applications that use libexif don't recognize the EXIF tags on my pictures.
> I have tested eog and gthumb; while both still display images correctly,
> neither recognizes EXIF tags.  Other applications that parse EXIF tags
> without using libexif (such as gqview and exiftool) continue to display EXIF
> tags properly, proving that they have not somehow been stripped from the
> images that I was trying to view.
>
> My version of gthumb is a self-compiled CVS snapshot from November 2006, but
> the rest of the programs mentioned are the latest FC5 updates.  I tried
> re-compiling my version of gthumb, but that didn't help.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed from here?  Is the latest libexif update
> broken?

Does the stock FC5 gthumb work?

Downgrade to the original FC5 libexif-0.6.12-3.2.1 and see whether
that "fixes" it.

The libexif-0.6.12-5 update is a security-fix, see "rpm -q --changelog
libexif". There is a slight chance that a security related patch
breaks the code.