[Digikam-users] How to use versioning?

[Brian Morrison]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:17:18 +0200
Andreas Mair <amair.sob at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello Marcel,
> 
> 2012/6/19 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
> >
> >
> >> digiKam settings: Metadata / Behavior / Reading and Writing
> >> Metadata If I enable "Write to sidecar files" and set this option
> >> to anything but "Write to XMP sidecar for read-only image only"
> >> versioning *doesn't* work (even if image is read-only).
> >> I mean:
> >> - on that page I've only enabled "Read from sidecar files" and
> >> nothing else => versioning works (history OK)
> >> - now enable "Wright to sidecar files" and set it to "Write to XMP
> >> sidecar for read-only image only" => versioning still works
> >> - now set "Wright to sidecar files" to "Write to sidecar only" or
> >> "Write to image and XMP Sidecar" => versionimng *not* works
> >
> > Versioning involves information stored in image metadata, which may
> > explain that a bug in metadata writing can affect versioning.
> >
> > Are you sure that you run libkexiv2 newer than April? I strongly
> > recommend not to use sidecars with any older version.
> 
> I'm using kde-base/libkexiv2-4.8.3 and media-gfx/digikam-2.6.0 on a
> Gentoo Linux box.
> Is this new enough?

On Fedora libkexiv2-4.8.3 was built on 30th April, so that library
version must precede that date.

I can see a libexiv2-4.8.4, dated in early June. There don't seem to be
any later upstream versions, so this is probably the version which has
the post-April fixes.

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Brian Morrison