[PlanetCCRMA] libtool dependency in FC3 PlanetCCRMA sound apps needs updating?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 17:25, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:50, Tracey Hytry wrote:
> > > 
> > > The problem is a fairly recent update to the compiler (coming from
> > > Fedora). 
> > ....
> > > Apparently apt does more strict checking of dependencies than yum...
> 
> It looks like it is, after all, a bug in apt, see details in:
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164601
> (I should have looked more closely at the dependencies of both packages)
> 
> Warren Togami wrote:
> > [wtogami at devserv i386]$ rpm -qp gcc-3.4.4-2.fc3.i386.rpm --provides
> > gcc = 3.4.3-26
> > gcc34
> > gcc = 3.4.4-2.fc3
> > [wtogami at devserv i386]$ rpm -qp --requires libtool-1.5.6-4.FC3.2.i386.rpm  |grep gcc
> > gcc = 3.4.3
> > 
> > These are the latest gcc and libtool in FC3 updates.  They clearly match
> > dependencies, as you can see if you install them manually with rpm.  This is an
> > apt bug where it is failing to see both gcc versions provided by gcc.  It is
> > seeing on the newest version.  apt has several other problems handling virtual
> > provide dependencies like this.
> > 
> > I used to be a big apt proponent, but now that upstream has given up and key
> > capabilities like multilib will never happen, I now consider apt to be a
> > dead-end.  Please stop using it if you want a fully working system in Fedora."
> 
> Now that I know that it is not a problem with libtool itself I'll 
> release a package that keeps apt happy... arghhh...

And of course that is not quite right either as the latest compiler will
now be required, I guess you will have upgrade (not an option not to).
Oh well...

-- Fernando