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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:42:38 -0500
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Note that Centos has the same problem.

-Connie

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Troy Dawson 
wrote:

> Howdy,
> OK, here's what's happened.  Solution to come, hopefully today.
> 
> S.L. 301
>    gtk2-2.2.4-4.0
>    librsvg2-2.2.3-2
> 
> S.L. 302
>    gtk2-2.2.4-4.0
>    librsvg2-2.2.3-2
> 
> S.L. 303
>    gtk2-2.2.4-8.1
>    librsvg2-2.2.3-2
> 
> S.L. 304
>    gtk2-2.2.4-12
>    librsvg2-2.2.3-6
> 
> Now the problem comes with S.L. 304, which is basically RHEL 3 Update 4
> They changed BOTH gtk2 and librsvg2 ... rather dramatically.
> 
> gtk2 they changed the name of the file
>    /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
> to
>    /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-32
> 
> 
> Well, that's a problem because librsvg2 had the following in it's post 
> install script
>    gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
> BUT ... if gtk2 is updated before librsvg2, then that file isn't there 
> anymore, so the script fails, and it fails to uninstall, which is 
> causing headaches.
> 
> Now here is another fun problem.  We can't update the librsvg2 first 
> either.  Why?  Because the startup script for the NEW librsvg2 has
>    /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> and the OLD gtk2, does not have that file.  So it's going to fail, 
> causing the exact same headache, that just looks a little different.
> 
> So ... in the end, we can't update librsvg2 first, because it needs the 
> newer gtk2.  But we can't update the gtk2 first because the old ltbrsvg2 
> needs the old gtk2.
> 
> *sighs*
> Troy
> p.s. Next person that says we arn't getting our updates out quick enough 
> get's pointed to this.
> 

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