koji libdrm defective

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 21 13:37:58 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:46 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: 
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:15:23 -0600, Aaron wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I installed the libdrm-2.4.17-1.fc12.i686
> > from koji on my desktop (F12) and all was fine.
> > 
> > However, when I tried to do that on my lapt2.4.17-1.fc12.i686op things
> > went wrong..
> > 1. The yum update process demanded thhagt libdrm-devel  be installed.
> > Which I did from koji.
> > 2.. The machine would no longer boot into Gnome.
> > 
> > To fix it I had to remove the  koji based lbdrm and libdrm-devel and
> > install from fedora updates.
> > 
> > I assume  this might have happened to someone else.
> 
> What are you trying to point out?
> 
> An old libdrm-devel package installed on your machine depends on the
> old libdrm, so you needed to update both.
But that was not necessary of the desktop machine. 
The  koji install was suggested on the list so I tried it and it worked on the desktop.

> The same libdrm has been made a "stable" update already:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0252
> 
> Please don't play with builds found in koji unless you know what you're
> doing or unless a package maintainer asks you to try a specific build.
> 
> In this case it might have been more productive to give feedback on
> libdrm while it was still in updates-testing.


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