[Mageia-dev] xcb-util update, which broke the BS

Wed Jul 6 13:59:57 CEST 2011

On 6 July 2011 12:12, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 6 July 2011 12:08, Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> 2011/7/6 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
+>>> On 6 July 2011 12:00, Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>>> The problem is libxcb is obsoleting libxcb-util0:
+>>>> $ rpm -qp --obsoletes libxcb-dpms0-1.7-1.mga1.i586.rpm
+>>>> libxcb-util0
+>>>> libxcb-util1
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>
+>>> So we need to bump the Epoch in xcb-util?
+>> No, we need to drop libxcb's obsoletes at first. I guess will need to
+>> add some conflicts in libxcb-util so that it will upgrade libxcb at
+>> first when upgrading from previous distros.
+>>
+>
+> Yes, (you probably missed my previous email), anyway, we may needn't
+> add the obsoletes back, it was added 2years+ ago
+> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages?view=revision&revision=383043
+>
+> I'll try and check more thoroughly though.
+>
+
+I checked using Sophie, and can't find libxcb-util.so* or libxcb-util0
+in Mandriva at all. So it looks safe to drop that obsolete for good.
+
+> Thanks a bunch for the fix.
+>
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+