On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As for the issue with mesa I have a pretty good idea that it is not so >> much an "error" with the pre-existing RPM as the fact that I think OLPC has >> hacked a local copy down to size to save some space on the XO. Choices >> like that get made because of the extremely limited storage of the XO >> laptop. Let's call it a "misfeature" of a compromise that was made for the >> right reasons. with unintended consequences. >> >> So lets ignore it for this discussion. >> >> ** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: >> mesa-libGL-7.9-6.fc14.armv5tel has missing requires of >> mesa-dri-drivers(armv5tel-32) = ('0', '7.9', '6.fc14') >> >> > Chris: > > > I believe that you can safely ignore the 'mesa' yum check error. AFAIK > these drivers are omitted by design. yum check will give the same errors > on all the new XO builds, as the DRI modules are not used on the XO and are > no longer shipped to save a large amount of space - especially on the XO-1. > The other messages re dependencies, perhaps Mr Robinson can more > efficiently say if there are the necessary arm builds in the repos, or > whether he can generate them easily.. > > > Kevin, > >From following the discussion on this list, I recalled something about mesa-dri-drivers and had an inkling that the yum check error for that package was neither unexpected or necessarily a significant issue. I certainly apologize if my characterization of what I understood to be a necessary and sensible compromise for the sake of space-savings is inaccurate in detail, but I thought I had i it right in spirit. The history of the aeidon package details within Fedora repos that Dwayne describes goes beyond my understanding of packaging nitty-gritty, but I hope and imagine it would be well-understood by someone like Peter or Daniel. cjl
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