Someone Explain: Whats going on X.org/XFree

[Mike A. Harris]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, RaXeT wrote:

>I tried the xorg-x11 3_11.6 rpms with FC2 T1 and that wasn't my
>happy experience. It didn't install and I couldn't determine if
>the existing XFree86 config was being used after install. I had
>tried to do rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-* and that didn't work... gave me
>:
>
>rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-*
>error: Failed dependencies:
>        XFree86 is needed by (installed) xine-lib-1.0.0-0.5.rc3.fr

Bug in xine-lib rpm packaging.

>        XFree86 is needed by (installed) aalib-1.4rc5-4.fr

Bug in aalib rpm packaging.

>        XFree86 is needed by (installed) openoffice.org-1.1.0-30

Bug in openoffice.org packaging, fixed in 1.1.0-32.

>        XFree86-truetype-fonts >= 4.2.0 is needed by (installed) 
>VFlib2-2.25.6-19

Bug in VFlib2 packaging, fixed in VFlib2-2.25.6-21


>        XFree86-xfs is needed by (installed) chkfontpath-1.9.10-2

Bug in chkfontpath, fixed in chkfontpath-1.10.0-1

>Then I made the mistake of doing rpm -Uvh --nodeps xorg-x11-*
>and that didn't work so I went back to XFree86-4.3.0-59.

The proper way to do it, is to upgrade to /all/ of the current 
rawhide bits.  openoffice might not be there yet.  Then do:

rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-*.rpm


Also, where did you get aalib and xine-libs from?  I'd like to 
download the src.rpm packages for those and see why they are 
broken.  I assume it is just a bogus dependancy, or incorrect 
dependancy on the part of the packager.

>Oh well, it's devel, that's what you expect. I could have fried
>my card, my system, but hey it's for the cause! :)

Yeppers.  ;o)  Your testing is greatly appreciated!

Take care,
TTYL


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Mike A. Harris       ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - X.org X11 maintainer - Red Hat