On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:44:54PM +0100, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Eva Myers wrote:
> >
> >What should I change in order to fix this bug, please?
> >Eva.
> >
> I've just reproduced this, seems similarish issue to the
> one I've reported about inkscape.
> 
> Installing the previous release of freetype
> e.g.
>   rpm -Uvh freetype-2.1.9-6.el4.i386.rpm 
>   freetype-devel-2.1.9-6.el4.i386.rpm --oldpackage

That worked fine, thank you very much.  As the bad freetype has been
backed out I haven't bothered with excluding freetype from the regular
updates.

However, "yum list" seems to think that the bad freetype is still
available, even though I ran "yum clean all".

sirtommy 10:22% yum list 'freetype*'
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
freetype.i386                            2.1.9-6.el4            installed
freetype-devel.i386                      2.1.9-6.el4            installed
Available Packages
freetype.i386                            2.1.9-7.el4.6          sl-errata
freetype-demos.i386                      2.1.9-7.el4.6          sl-errata
freetype-devel.i386                      2.1.9-7.el4.6          sl-errata
freetype-utils.i386                      2.1.9-7.el4.6          sl-errata

Is this anything to worry about?
Eva.