Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (31 mails)

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

Marc Waeckerlin <Marc.Waeckerlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> さんは書きました:

> Am Dienstag, 7. September 2004 16.00 schrieb Mike FABIAN  <Mike FABIAN 
> <mfabian@xxxxxxx>> unter "Re: [m17n] And the winner is... (or not?) SCIM is 
> better, but buggy [Re: chinput vs. scim [Re: Problem with .xim on SuSE 9.1, 
> Chinese zh_CN.UTF-8, miniChinput]]":
>> But I built it for SuSE 9.1/SLES9. I.e. this package is compiled against
>> *exactly* the libraries as they were on SuSE Linux 9.1. For gtk2 this
>> means gtk2-2.2.4-121.i586.rpm was used.
>
> Could you update the spec file so, that the dependency to the gtk2
> is reflected in the rpm? Otherwise apt4rpm (or also YOU) install new
> releases of gtk2 without being able to detect that a dependency was
> broken. Obviously this dependency is a killer, so it should
> definitely be noted in the spec file.

Yes, but this is somewhat difficult. I use the same scim.spec file
for different versions of SuSE Linux. Usually the automatic
dependencies created by

     Autoreqprov:  on

should be enough. The dependency you see with 

    mfabian@magellan:~$ rpm -qR scim | grep gtk
    libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
    libscim-gtkutils-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
    mfabian@magellan:~$

is created automatically. I believe it is a bug in GTK2 if gtk-2.2.x
and gtk-2.4.x are incompatible but the version number of the library
libgtk-x11 is the same.

Now the question is what would be a good workaround. I could
add a hack to insert a

    Requires:  gtk2-<exact-version-number-used-when-building>

into the scim.spec file automatically when building. But that has
the problem that we would get something like

    Requires: gtk2 = 2.2.4

for example and then the tools like apt4rpm and YOU would complain
that that a dependency was broken if there is a minor version upgrade
to gtk2 for example to gtk2-2.2.5. And this complaint would be useless
and only disturbing.

A

    Requires: gtk2 >= 2.2.4

obviously would not solve the problem either. I really think this is a
problem created by GTK2 because they didn't correctly bump the version
of their library.

Maybe I build another set of scim and related packages for
SuSE Linux 9.1-i386+kde (that SuSE Linux 9.1 plus the updates from 

 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/

which include gtk2-2.4.x, therefore such packages should work for you.
But I cannot tell now when I will find time for that.

Note that the packages from that supplementary directory are always to
be regarded as somewhat experimental and risky. Read

 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/README.txt

for details.

-- 
Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@xxxxxxx>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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