Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (277 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>   
> > It's been OVER 5 weeks now, and we can't update our beloved OpenOffice,
> > because the packager can't seem to get the 5 "extension" packages over
> > their dependency issues!! Can we expect that to happen in the near
> > future, or do we have to wait for 11.2?
> >     
>
> Urgh, I am sorry but I wasn't ware about these problems. Where do see them? 
> In 
> factory? Have you reported it in bugzilla? Have you reported it anywhere at 
> all?
>   
Yes, and others on the opensuse list have also noted it. Even from a
clean, fresh, on a new 'puter shipped with Vista and replaced with 11.1
w/KDE 4.1 and updated using FACTORY for updating KDE, it happens "right
out of the box" so to speak. The problem has to do withe the 5
"extension" OO packages. I've tried to nudge someone, NICELY, to get it
fixed, since it's obvious that it broken, for over 5 weeks!
> http://bugzilla.novell.com is always the best place to report bugs. I do not 
> have time to read the many opensuse-related mailing lists and forums. Nobody 
> forwarded me any complains until today. Thanks a lot Marcus Meissner for 
> forwarding your mail to me.
>
> I currently build the packages for 6 distributions: SLED10, openSUSE-10.3, 
> openSUSE-11.0, openSUSE-11.1, SLED11, Factory. I use openSUSE-11.1 on my 
> machine, so I do most of the testing on this distribution.
>
> I do not have time to test on all distributions. This is why the 
> OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project is important. I hope that I'll get feedback 
> about the important problems before I put it into the OpenOffice.org:STABLE 
> project.
>   
I can't help you with UNSTABLE, as I don't have a system presently I can
dedicate to that.
> Hmm, the packages with extensions are missing only in the 
> OpenOffice.org:STABLE project. It is because the packages are built there the 
> older openSUSE-11.0-like way. It needed some effort to fix the split build 
> (openSUSE-11.1-like way) for older distributions and I didn't have time to do 
> it for OOo-3.0.1 (busy with SLED11, no other volunteer).
>
> => the extensions are not be available for OOo-3.0.1. They are optional 
> packages, so they should not break update. If anyone really need them, he 
> should stay with OOo-3.0 or he could try OOo-3.1-beta from the 
> OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project. Alternatively, he could try to find a 
> volunteer to build the packages for him. I would like to concentrate on 
> OOo-3.1. I have hard times with it as well.
>   
I'm not the one to help you with that, so I hope someone else picks up
the ball on that one! I'm simply staying with the 11.1 default install
as I do want the extension packages.
> By other words. You need not wait for openSUSE-11.2. You might need to wait 
> for OOo-3.1.
>   
At least it works, but I would like the updates.
> BTW: You might want to watch my regular announces at 
> http://lizards.opensuse.org/category/desktop/openofficeorg/. I mention there 
> also plans and most important changes. They are automatically posted also at 
> http://planetsuse.org/
>
> Should I use another channel for the udpate?
>   
opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx would be great!
> Note: OOo-3.0.1 caused many troubles because it was built the old way, see
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471280. I am sorry for this. I 
> was 
> really overloaded at the time of the release. Nobody reported the problems in 
> the OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE project in time. I think that nobody really 
> tested it because openSUSE-11.1 was just released at that time and all people 
> played with it. I hope that OOo-3.1 will be much better.
Me too! Thanks,

Fred

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