[RFU]: guile-1.8.7

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 18 17:32:00 GMT 2010


On Nov 17 08:43, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 3:51 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen schreef op wo 17-11-2010 om 09:34 [+0100]:
> > 
> >>> Please remove version guile-1.6.7-4
> >>
> >> There's a small problem.  The libguile12 package is required by TeXmacs
> >> and by the guile setup.hint itself.  But even so, the guile-1.6.7-4
> >> package is the external source for the libguile12 package.  So, afaics,
> >> we can't remove guile-1.6.7-4.
> > 
> > Indeed, we can't.  It seems that libguile12 is only used by TeXmacs,
> > so when TeXmacs upgrades to libguile17, we should be okay.
> 
> Unless a user wants to stick with the old version of TeXmacs.  What I
> normally do in this situation is:
> 
> cp foo-$OLDVER-src.tar.bz2 libfooN/libfooN-$OLDVER-src.tar.bz2
> cat libfooN/setup.hint |\
> 	sed -e '/^external-source/d' \
> 	-e 's/^category:.*$/category: _obsolete/' > libfooN/setup.hint2
> mv libfooN/setup.hint2 libfooN/setup.hint
> rm foo-$OLDVER*bz2

Good idea.  I did that with libguile12, too, now.


Corinna

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