Re: [Synaptic-devel] synaptic bug?

[Richard Bos]

Op donderdag 25 december 2003 01:00, schreef Michael Vogt:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 01:24:58PM +0100, Richard Bos wrote:
> > Is this a bug in synaptic or a compile problem, does anyone know?
>
> We had a similar problem about 1-2 weeks ago. It turned out that the
> binary interface of apt-0.5.15cnc1 and 0.5.15cnc4 are not entirely
> compatible. This might have caused the problem. IIRC all our
> precompiled rpm packages are compiled against 0.5.15cnc1 (Sebastian is
> the one who knows for sure :).
>
> So if Jerome is using a different version, this might have caused the
> problem. There are two ways to solve the problem. One is to go back to
> apt-0.5.15cnc1 and the other is recompiling synaptic against the
> installed apt.
>
> It is just a guess that Jeromes problem is the same (but it looks like
> it is). If he can recompile 0.47 and the problem persists, I would be
> very happy to get a gdb backtrace from him.
>
> Do you know what version of apt and what system he is using? And if he
> is using a rpm or did compiled synaptic himself?

I'm supplying and distributing the packages for suse (afaik ;)
And the latest apt version I distributed is apt-0.5.5cnc6, while I've 
apt-0.5.15cnc2 installed myself.  I think that I compiled synaptic against 
the latter version and hence the undefined error.  Thanks for pointing this 
out!

-- 
Richard