On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Konstantin Olchanski
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> Just got bitten by a bug in the fastbugs qt update reported back in February.
>
> Basic problem is crash of KDE plasma desktop.
>
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7012
> http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1402&L=scientific-linux-devel&T=0&P=1742
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070371  (secret bug report)
>
> Solution is to: yum downgrade qt qt-devel qt-mysql qt-sqlite qt-x11
>
> This of course will be undone by the nightly yum update script. So,
>
> I hereby request the bad Qt packages be removed from the SL fastbugs repository.

I don't want to sound negative but ...

While this is indeed a nasty bug, it seems to affect only KDE. And the
update does have (though not many) bug fixes which benefit non-KDE
desktop users. Unless the packages are retracted upstream (RHEL),
there might not be good enough justification for SL to remove them.

For those who are affected, make sure you add 'exclude=' to the yum
conf file so that the current version does not get installed (again).

Akemi