[EPEL-devel] Re: Problems with gthumb and exiv2-libs after upgrade to CentOS 7.5 (1804)

[Todd Zullinger]

Hi,

Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>  Our local school is running a highly customized Xfce desktop based
> on
>  CentOS 7. We're using quite many EPEL packages.
>  
>  The upgrade from CentOS 7.4 to 7.5 has been a bit bumpy for desktop
>  users. Here's what happens when I try to install the Gthumb image viewer:
>  
>    --> Résolution des dépendances terminée
>    Erreur : Paquet : gthumb-3.3.4-1.el7.x86_64 (epel)
>                 Requiert : libexiv2.so.12()(64bit)
>     Vous pouvez essayer d'utiliser --skip-broken pour contourner le
>     problème
>  
>  The problem has already been reported, and there's a detailed discussion
>  about it here:
>  
>  https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3414821
>  
>  It seems like the only workaround is to rebuild the old exiv2-libs
>  package and build a corresponding compat- package.
>  
>  My question to you here: is there any way you provide this package?
>  Because in the current state, the gthumb package you provide is unusable. 
There's a bug open to resolve this:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1578517

The gthumb package just needs to be rebuilt against the
updated exiv libraries.  A scratch build succeeds, so this
should be a relatively easy fix and will hopefully get
cleared up soon.

Here's a scratch build with the rpm release bumped in a way
that it is newer than what's currently in EPEL-7 and older
than the next build, in case you want to use it while
waiting for an official rebuild.

    https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=27066848

(It should be finished in a few minutes.)

>  Cheers from the sunny South of France, 
Cheers to you from the sunny west coast of Florida. :)

-- 
Todd
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