On 1/20/16, Rob McCathie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/01/16 01:28, Olaf Hering wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, Rob McCathie wrote: >> >>> "vlc-noX-2.2.1-305.1.x86_64 requires libmatroska.so.6(V_1.4.1)(64bit), >>> but >>> this requirement cannot be provided" >> This is an old variant. I think 'zypper dup' is required to replace >> old version 2.2.1-305.1 with the current version 2.2.1-131.3. >> >> Olaf > > Indeed "zypper dup --from packman" has 'downgraded' the vlc packages to > the actual current ones and now everything's fine. > > This is just feedback, please don't take it as me being non-appreciative > of the work Packman repo maintainers do, but i would suggest trying to > avoid issues like this (lower versioning of new packages, etc.) in > future. I would like to able to offer openSUSE Leap with Packman on > systems i provide, but i need to be confident that the GUI updater is > going to 'just work', and not require this type of manual intervention. > > Again, just feedback, if using the Packman repo comes with an > expectation that the user will be able to handle some manual > intervention now and then, fair enough and so be it, i'll figure out > something else for my purposes. > > -- > Regards, > > Rob McCathie > We at openSUSE have pride in our packaging work but every now and again a hiccup occurs like this one. We take note and make sure it doesn't happen again. This problem arose from urgent security updates to libmatroska and libebml. It wasn't noticed that mkvtoolnix and vlc had hard dependencies on libmatroska versions. This has been fixed now and more care will be taken in future. Regards Dave Plater Maintainer multimedia:apps and libs
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