[ATrpms-users] On F7 qt3 IS named qt

[Kim Bisgaard]

Hi Paulo,

Thanks for the explanation - will try to install qt3 and qt3-MySQL

SORRY FOR THE NOISE!
Kim

Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Kim Bisgaard 
> <kim+j2 at alleroedderne.adsl.dk <mailto:kim%2Bj2 at alleroedderne.adsl.dk>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Paulo and Axel,
>
>     The new qt3-MySQL (and qt3) package are not that good an idea on f7
>     because there the packages already exist as qt-MySQL. They are
>     probably
>     fine on F8 and F9 though.
>
>     I know that F7 is only supported another month, but still...
>
>     The workaround is to use yumdownloader followed by rpm -Uvh --nodeps
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> F8 is the same as F7. Axel created these packages because in F9  there 
> is a qt3,
> and qt is in fact qt4. Therefore, these new packages are just wrappers 
> (they are empty),
> making it possible to use, for instance, qt3-devel in all packages for all
> Fedora/RHEL without using any compilation switch.
>
> You will see that, for el4, there is also a kdelibs3, due to the same 
> reason.
> I still have an FC6 system at home, and this workaround makes the 
> recreation of
> packages really easier.
>  
>
> -- 
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ