Re: Upgrading XFree86

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 12:23, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 22:12, Bill and/or Chris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 04:19, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 18:00, Bill and/or Chris wrote:
> > > > Is there an easy way to upgrade XFree86 to version 4.3 in Red Hat 8.0? 
> > > > I downloaded the source rpm and compiled them, but when I tried to
> > > > upgrade, I got the following error message:
> > > > 
> > > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > >         Xft-devel >= 1.9.1.020626.1517-1 is needed by (installed)
> > > > pango-devel-1.1.1-1
> > > >         Xft is needed by (installed) libgnomeui-2.0.3-3
> > > >         Xft >= 1.9.1 is needed by (installed) qt-3.0.5-17
> > > > 
> > > > Aren't Xft and Xft-devel provided by XFree86-libs and XFree86-devel,
> > > > respectively?  Or are these versions incompatible with my versions of
> > > > pango-devel, libgnomeui and qt?  If I have to upgrade libgnomeui and qt,
> > > > I have to upgrade a whole bunch of other applications, and it would just
> > > > be easier to upgrade to Red Hat 9.
> > > 
> > > It might be in the end. Though for the above you can just install the
> > > XFree86 packages with --nodeps. 
> > > 
> > > The rule with --nodeps with it is never use it unless you can 
> > > explain why you need it :-)
> > > 
> > > The reason you need it here is that the Xft libraries got moved
> > > into XFree86-libs instead being in a separate package as 
> > > they were in Red Hat 8.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > >                                            Owen
> > 
> > So what problems might I run into if I upgrade with --nodeps?
> 
> If the above are the only errors you get when you install without,
> then I think it probably will work fine without any problems.
> 
> But --nodeps is saying "I know better than the packaging", so really
> anything _could_ happen. With --nodeps you won't catch problems where
> a newer kernel or newer glibc is needed.
> 
> It's unlikely that anything worse than X not starting will happen :-)
> 
> Regards, 
>                                            Owen

That sounds pretty bad. :-)  Maybe I should have my RH9 CDs on hand when
I do this, just in case.



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