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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Mysql as Fedora Core RPM dependency
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2005-08-20 9:18:43
Message-ID: 200508201118.47083.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Saturday 20 August 2005 00:03, mike@perusion.org wrote:
> Hi devels,
>
> I wanted to let whoever is running the Fedora RPM distro for koffice
> know that the recent update caused problems for us because of a (new?)
> dependency with mysql. It is requiring a specific MySQL client version
> as a hard dependency.

I took a look through our configure scripts but cannot find anything that 
demands a particular mysql version.

> This breaks Yum updates for us, since we have MySQL 4 on all of our
> workstations and servers.
>
> In my opinion, setting a specific version of a database server for an
> office software package is wrong. It should not matter precisely
> what version; if it does, then you have distributed a bad release.

Fortunately, we are blameless, not being the distributors.

> I realize that that person may not reside on this list, and I also
> realize that no one here may care much. 8-)

Well, naturally we'd prefer everyone to have the best KOffice experience 
possible.

> But I thought I would at least let the powers that be know that
> it has impacted our systems -- we won't install koffice by default
> in the next kickstart if this dependency problem continues....

If you really want to let the powers that be know, try finding out who 
packages the fedora koffice rpm's -- I guess an rpm has some information 
about who created it. You might also try posting a question on 
kde-packager@kde.org, although I don't know much about that list. It's just 
that the listname sounds relevant. And aren't there mailing lists for fedora? 
I see dependency problems being discussed on fedora-list@redhat.com.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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