[mythtv-users] Update to lirc 0.8.5 breaks things

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:25:31PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 29 August 2009 02:25:27 Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:14:19AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 27 August 2009 21:16:43 Blammo wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Jarod Wilson<jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Hopefully you're still monitoring this thread but I had a question. Is
> > > > >> F10 destined to get a 2.6.29 kernel (i.e. not in updates-testing)?
> > > > >
> > > > > Supposedly, yes...
> > > > 
> > > > Any status update on this? As of today, via normally available repos
> > > > (fusion, atrpms, etc) my mythdora installation still breaks if
> > > > anything 0.8.5 is installed.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, no. Looks like F10 is going to stick with 2.6.27 for
> > > the entirety of its existence.
> > 
> > Would it make sense to resurrect lirc kmdls to fix this?
> 
> Nah, I've got a kludgy fix I'm going to try to push out tomorrow. I'm
> simply going to cheat and push 0.8.4 as an update with a versioning of
> 0.8.5-1.fc10.0.8.4, or something like that. Then it'll work even for
> folks who don't/won't use any 3rd-party repos at all.

I think messing with the versions like that is Not Good, even epochs
would be better than faking a version. It confuses users and
dependency checks.

I'll put proper 0.8.5 packages in testing for F10.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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