New RPMFusion dependency problem

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Nov 4 09:42:12 UTC 2008


On 04.11.2008 02:20, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:36:09 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>
>>> I tried to update my F8 system with the new RPMFusion repository today.
>>> On DVDAuthorWizard, I got the following:
>>>> Error: Missing Dependency: soc is needed by package DVDAuthorWizard-1.4.6-2.fc8.noarch (rpmfusion-free-updates)
>> Known thing. It has been in the broken deps reports posted to the packager
>> and rpmfusion-developers list. Perhaps if you read the replies in those
>> threads, you find an answer.
> Sorry I'm not subscribed to the developers list, I'm a consumer of 
> RPMFusion.  And since it was released today, I just followed through 
> with my usual yum updates.  Who would have thought that they'd release 
> something that was broken....  My bad.

A repo as big as RPM Fusion always has known bugs -- just like Fedora, 
Debian and other distros have to say "okay, we need to release now, even 
if there are know bugs". This is what we decided to do -- especially as 
RPM Fusion as a whole was in better shape already then Livna was.

CU
knurd




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