[winswitch] Xpra 2.3.2 - CentOS 7 packaging conflicts

[Antoine Martin]

On 05/07/18 21:43, Antonio Trande via shifter-users wrote:
> Are you building xpra for CentOS7 starting from xpra-src package on
> Fedora 27?
No, we have been using a unified spec file for all RPM distros for about
7 or 8 years now.

Cheers,
Antoine


> 
> 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 * fix paint errors with reformatted images using outdated stride value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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