Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-24 Thread Bob Goodwin
CLOSE Dave wrote: After upgrading FC27 to FC28 (x86_64), Thunderbird became very unreliable and useful extensions stopped working. I decided to take the easy solution and just downgrade Thunderbird back to what I had with FC27. But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is dependent on Thunderbir

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
Samuel Sieb wrote: > If you want 52.9 for F28, then you can get it from here: > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1104472 > > Then use versionlock or excludes to stop it from upgrading. Thank you! That is exactly what I needed. Now I have to figure out how to re-enable the a

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/24/18 4:59 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> You're running F28 and trying to downgrade to packages in F27. >> Basically trying to run a Franken version of Fedora. >> >> That is not something that is supported. > I'm only trying to run an older version of Thunderbird. It's the >

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/23/18 1:59 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: You're running F28 and trying to downgrade to packages in F27. Basically trying to run a Franken version of Fedora. That is not something that is supported. I'm only trying to run an older version of Thunderbird. It's the dependencies

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
Ed Greshko wrote: > You're running F28 and trying to downgrade to packages in F27. > Basically trying to run a Franken version of Fedora. > > That is not something that is supported. I'm only trying to run an older version of Thunderbird. It's the dependencies that are killing me. -- Da

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/24/18 4:34 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > Trying to downgrade everything at once still seems excessive: > > # dnf --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 --enablerepo=updates27 > downgrade hunspell-1.5.4-4.fc27.x86_64 > dnf --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 --enablerepo=updates2 You're running F28

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
stan wrote: > Run this as > # dnf -x libreoffice\* --best --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 > --enablerepo=updates27 downgrade thunderbird-52.9.1-1.fc27.x86_64 > > and it should point to the dependency of libreoffice you want to > downgrade that causes it to be erased. > ... > It is probably

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread stan
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:37:33 + CLOSE Dave wrote: > Samuel Sieb wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:37:33 + CLOSE Dave wrote: > >> But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is > >> dependent on Thunderbird, and deletes it! It certainly shouldn't > >> be dependent! > > > > The output from d

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
Samuel Sieb wrote: >> After upgrading FC27 to FC28 (x86_64), Thunderbird became very >> unreliable and useful extensions stopped working. I decided to take the >> easy solution and just downgrade Thunderbird back to what I had with >> FC27. But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is dependent o

Re: Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/23/18 10:58 AM, CLOSE Dave wrote: After upgrading FC27 to FC28 (x86_64), Thunderbird became very unreliable and useful extensions stopped working. I decided to take the easy solution and just downgrade Thunderbird back to what I had with FC27. But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is d

Excessive dependency

2018-10-23 Thread CLOSE Dave
After upgrading FC27 to FC28 (x86_64), Thunderbird became very unreliable and useful extensions stopped working. I decided to take the easy solution and just downgrade Thunderbird back to what I had with FC27. But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is dependent on Thunderbird, and deletes it! I