Zypper up on stable PA4 image killed Maliit

[Carl Symons]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 August 2013 22:53:42 you wrote:
>> n Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org>wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > last night I did another zypper up on my stable image to get the Add Ons
>> > fix. I
>> > got quite a few packages upgraded or installed: Among others, all the
>> > maliit
>> > packages were replaced by versions with a -qt4 suffix or upgraded and,
>> > several
>> > qt5 packages were installed.
>> > Since the next reboot, the virtual keyboard won't show up anymore.
>> > What happened? This has to be fixed before release so that zypper up won't
>> > leave people without a keyboard.
>>
>> I had to rename those packages since nemo now ships with packages with the
>> exact same name but built for qt5 and we have to avoid those (apparently on
>> some sdk installations it produced good images, on others got confused and
>> couldn't produce an image).
>>
>> generated images do work, i just tried to do a new one, seems fine.
>>
>> it's weird that update doesn't work, probably pulled the qt5 version
>> together the qt4 one.
>> but being a package called "maliit-framework" based on qt5 in nemo i don't
>> think we can't do anything about it.
>> images done after the name change are correct and are going to correctly
>> update.
>> installations older than thast, don't think can be fixed (if somebody with
>> more packaging-fu has an idea, please do tell ;)
>
> I don't mind if my RC won't upgrade to the final image correctly, I can just
> reinstall. What we should think about is if we think we need to provide a
> working upgrade path from PA3 to PA4 or if we think that it's okay for those
> few who have installed PA3 on their device to do a reinstall with PA4.
>
> What is our approach here?
> Cheers,
> Thomas

I'd be fine with reinstalling. The announcement should be explicit
about this. Mine broke too after upgrading from the most recent RC.

What is the latest known good image?

Carl