On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 15:43 +0200, Fidel Leon wrote:
On Monday 28 April 2014 08:31:19 piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
Recent libgcrypt update to libgcrypt-1.6.1-2.fc21 doesn't allow you to install google-chrome current version in rawhide. The maintainer specifically removed the old .so compatibility with this new release. Is there any other way how to workaround this without downgrading the
package?
+1, it's a quite disruptive change, it breaks compatibility for a VERY MAJOR software product! We're not talking about an obscure app living under a rock in Github, we're talking about Google Chrome!
Given the description of the actual changes behind the soname bump:
"Unfortunately the rebase bumps soname to libgcrypt.so.20 due to dropping some long-ago deprecated API calls. This should not break builds of any reasonably current software."
I suspect the ugly hack of symlinking should work, for Chrome. But really, Google ought to do a new build. Or you could use Chromium; there's a COPR that carries it at http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/churchyard/chromium-russianfedora/ , though I can't vouch for the quality/safety personally at all (I don't use Chrome or Chromium).