[csw-maintainers] [csw-users] Kicad app broke with upgrade pkg-get -Uu

William Bonnet william at wbonnet.net
Tue Jul 7 17:50:59 CEST 2009


Hi

> You are using the package from Blastwave, not from OpenCSW. And this 
> is not an error on your side.
>
> You installed the package before the fork, and this package was not 
> updated since. But... the libs it is using have been modified, and 
> libxcb linking is no longer compatible between both project.
>
> I suggest your try to remove then reinstall kicad. It should work.
The problem Paul raised may happen again with several package which have 
not been updated since we forked.

I'm affraid we will have several other packages with broken dependencies 
if we don't rebuild it. Maybe we could script the detection of such 
packages ?

cheers
W.



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