[packagers] BEWARE: fftw interference with kde-redhat
Kjeldgaard Morten
mok at bioxray.dk
Mon Oct 9 10:14:05 CEST 2006
I suddenly find fftw from apt.kde-redhat.org trying to override my
version of fftw from RPMforge. The reason is that fftw version 3.1.1
suddenly appears from kde-redhat with the package name "fftw", where
version 3 everywhere else is called "fftw3". There is no simple
upgrade from fftw version 2 to fftw version 3, because the API has
changed.
So, all have to be aware that kde-redhat is not compatible with
RPMforge at the moment. If you use kde-redhat, things will break if
you upgrade fftw!!
I hope the kde-redhat maintainers will change their package naming
scheme ASAP so they use the package name "fftw3" for fftw version
3.*. I am not sure why they include fftw in their distribution.
Probably because some program in kde needs it. That program breaks
with RPMforge, and soon other stuff will too.
-- Morten
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