[winswitch] Xpra 2.3.2 - CentOS 7 packaging conflicts

[Antonio Trande]

Are you building xpra for CentOS7 starting from xpra-src package on
Fedora 27?

On 05/07/2018 16:01, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Due to a packaging error on our side (*), an Epoch tag meant to
> workaround a Fedora 27 packaging conflict from downstream ended up in
> the CentOS 7 package metadata.
> 
> The offending packages have now been purged and I have replaced them
> with a 2.3.3 pre-release. This applies to CentOS 7 only.
> 
> If you have already downloaded the 2.3.2 packages, you may want to
> follow these instructions to ensure that the packages do not stay locked
> on this version forever and to prevent future repo dependency errors:
> yum remove "*xpra*" -y
> yum clean all
> yum install xpra -y
> 
> This may also be necessary in the future when upgrading from Fedora 27
> to a newer release. We do not want to ever be using this tag, but we are
> forced into this situation by the Fedora downstream package.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience,
> Antoine
> 
> 
> (*) the mistake comes from this line which evaluates to true on CentOS7:
> %if 0%{?fedora}<28
> 
> 
> 
> On 27/06/18 03:30, Antoine Martin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This update fixes a large number of issues, mostly cosmetic ones, none
>> of them are really critical. There is no urgency to update.
>>
>> The buffer overflow sounds scary, but it only affects the GTK3 builds
>> and those aren't the default on any platforms yet, it only triggers when
>> OpenGL rendering is disabled and it is unlikely to be exploitable.
>>
>> The bandwidth-limit bypass can cause problems for those with budgeted
>> bandwidth allocations on their servers.
>>
>> Release notes:
>> * fix notification actions support with shadow servers
>> * fix paint errors with reformatted images using outdated stride value
>> * fix control commands that call window refresh
>> * fix broken pipe error when the browser cancels downloading 'noicon'
>> * fix spurious refresh events
>> * fix missing bug report data due to path errors
>> * fix XAUTHORITY environment variable getting clobbered
>> * fix html5 window refresh not throttled when document is not invisible
>> * fix non-opengl painting of windows with a padding area
>> * fix rgb paint of mmap data with the python2 cairo backend
>> * fix invalid clipboard toggle requests not ignored
>> * fix missing context handler for keymap setup (crash possible)
>> * fix proxy server test to use a signal to stop the test instance
>> * fix invalid exception value in X11 atom bindings
>> * fix bandwidth limit client bypass and connection errors
>> * fix building CUDA kernels with GCC 8.1
>> * fix tray menu setup error when the clipboard is disabled
>> * fix GTK3 buffer overflow with non-opengl backend
>> * fix startup errors with pulseaudio if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is missing
>> * fix clipboard token send error when there are no targets
>> * don't overwrite the dynamic system tray icon with default on startup
>> * correctly disable desktop-scaling when mmap is enabled
>> * skip repainting pointer overlay when the position is unchanged
>> * prevent authenticated users from shutting down proxy servers
>> * don't turn off notifications when we don't have a forwarder instance
>> * don't try to log an exception that does not exist
>> * allow the user to disable all video encoders and csc modules
>> * send missing exception details to server with remote-logging
>> * avoid RFB errors if screen capture fails
>> * avoid further errors when shadow capture fails
>> * recommend the dbus-x11 with the DEB package
>>
>> The source:
>> https://xpra.org/src/
>> Downloads:
>> https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Download
>>
>> Cheers
>> Antoine
>>
> 
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