[mythtv-users] Update to lirc 0.8.5 breaks things

[Jarod Wilson]

On Aug 30, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> wrote:

> 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.

Too late, already did it. Epoch bump would have to live forever and  
require updating lirc in all later releases, this kludge only has to  
live for another two months or so. Non-working lirc is more confusing  
than versioning wackiness, imo.

> I'll put proper 0.8.5 packages in testing for F10.

Slightly different meaning, but I was planning to do so as well (i.e.  
Put real 0.8.5 packages in F10 updates-testing, once the kludge gets  
pushed).

-- 
Jarod Wilson