Fedora 35 vs. Survex package

[Bill Gee]

Hi James -

Thanks for the update.   I do not have any active cave mapping projects right now, so for my test machine I am removing Survex and proceeding with Fedora 35.  When a new Survex package is available, I will give it a try.  There are other reasons for me to hold off Fedora 35 upgrades on my production systems for a week or two.

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Bill Gee


On Thursday, November 4, 2021 7:07:51 AM CDT James Begley wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> This is a known issue that Olly is working on - see
> https://trac.survex.com/ticket/102.
> 
> Fedora 35 has moved to proj version 8.2.0, which no longer contains the
> proj_api stuff that previous versiopns of survex relied on (deprecated
> since version 5 or 6, actually removed from version 8.0.0). Previous
> versions of fedora had proj v7, which worked with survex 1.2.44 fine, but
> moving to proj v8 has had some challenges (v8.0.0 and v8.1.0 both had bugs
> that blocked survex). A new release of survex that will build with proj
> v8.2.0 is going to be tested this evening, and hopefully will be released
> shortly after that.
> 
> For the time being, if you want to upgrade to fedora 35 you will need to
> uninstall survex first and then reinstall survex once a new build has been
> released.
> 
> Cheers,
> James
> 
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 at 11:57, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 2021-11-04 06:36 -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
> > > For JM Begley ...  I tried to upgrade one of my test machines to Fedora
> > 35 this morning.  It balked with the Survex package.  The message is:
> > >
> > > Error:
> > > Problem: package survex-1.2.44-1.fc34.x86_64 requires
> > libproj.so.19()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
> > >  - proj-7.2.1-2.fc34.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
> > >  - problem with installed package survex-1.2.44-1.fc34.x86_64
> > >
> > > I know it is early in the Fedora 35 cycle - just two days after
> > release!  Have you had a chance to look at this yet?
> >
> > Not that many Fedora survex users SFAIK, so probably not yet.
> > I just had a look and it seems that F35 is on proj 8.2.
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/proj/commits/f35
> > Althogh my 'all ditrso overview' shows 8.0 in fc35:
> > http://sandpiper.linaro.org/upstreamproject/details/proj
> > (libproj19
> > <http://sandpiper.linaro.org/upstreamproject/details/proj(libproj19>
> > comes from proj v7, libproj22 comes from proj v8)
> >
> > So I'm not sure if that means they removed proj7 (I'm failing to find
> > fedora's 'our package list' pages).
> >
> > Survex works with proj8 now (and is in debian), so if you just rebuild
> > it in fedora it should pick up the new proj and work. It looks like the
> > one in the archive is built against proj 7 but proj7 is no longer
> > available? I'm not sure how the fedora machinery works here.
> >
> > Wookey
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> >
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