[winswitch] Missing dependencies in CentOS 5.4 -> Bug?
Bob Tennent
rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Wed Oct 8 12:10:26 BST 2014
>|> Running Centos-6.5 32-bit. That repo doesn't have a
>|> 0.14.9-2.
>|No, it doesn't. The rebuild was for CentOS 5.x as per above.
>|The title of this thread is about CentOS 5, not 6.
The missing dependencies affected Centos-6 as well.
>|> xpra-0.14.4-1 works as a client.
>|>
>|> P.S. The new *-xpra packages make it quite hard to revert
>|> to an earlier version. AFAIK one has to explicitly remove
>|> all of them and install older versions by hand.
>|Older xpra builds should be compatible with most of the newer
>|dependencies.
>|The ones that are not compatible will be detected by yum.
Yum tells you which libraries are incompatible. Then you have the
additional step I didn't mention of figuring out which packages
are problematic.
>|> It would be
>|> easier if they were all bundled into the xpra package.
>|Absolutely no chance of ever doing this.
>|This is what is done on OSX and mswindows (not by choice) and is
>|maintenance and packaging nightmare.
In that case, I'll stick with a version that works. I can't
help you debug latest releases if I can't get back easily to
a working system.
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