koji libdrm defective

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:37:58 -0600, Aaron wrote:

> 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. 

Then the desktop machine didn't have libdrm-devel installed.
It's an optional package that only contains files need when compiling
software. libdrm doesn't need libdrm-devel, but libdrm-devel needs
a specific version-release of libdrm, see "rpm -qR libdrm-devel".