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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:02:25 +0200
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Hi Troy,

the update now worked. I guess there aren't many amd64 systems out there
initially installed with 307. And not many 32-bit GL apps run on them ;-)

Thanks,
	Stephan

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hi Stephan,
> Looks like we missed that one.  We're sorry about that.  It's getting pushed
> out right now.
> We're double checking some of the other i386 on x86_64 parts as well.
> Troy
> 
> Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> > Hi developers,
> > 
> > I received a bunch of "missing dependency" mails from part of my 307/x86_64
> > systems today when they should have appled the latest update to XFree86 &
> > friends.
> > 
> > The complaint from yum was that "Package XFree86-libs needs libGL.so.1, this
> > is not available."
> > 
> > Indeed:
> > 
> > # rpm -q --whatprovides libGL.so.1
> > no package provides libGL.so.1
> > # rpm -q --whatrequires libGL.so.1
> > XFree86-libs-4.3.0-98.EL.i386
> > 
> > Hmm, I swear I haven't installed it with --nodeps... wonder how it could
> > ever get onto the disk. This only affected systems initially installed with
> > 3.0.7. Systems installed with 3.0.5 in the first place have no problem:
> > 
> > # rpm -q --whatprovides libGL.so.1
> > XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-97.EL.i386
> > 
> > Looks like XFree86-Mesa-libGL.i386 was part of the initial release of
> > 305/x86_64, and two rounds of errata, but then got dropped, and it's missing
> > from the 3rd round of 305 errata (not causing dependency problems because
> > the older versions are available) and both the 307 release and the 307
> > errata.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >  Stephan
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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Stephan Wiesand
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