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[Solved] xscreensaver/glx problems since recent Xorg-7.7-3d.tcz upgrade

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Juanito:
The old version didn’t use libzstd.

GNUser:
Hi, jazzbiker.

Yes, tce-update compares md5 of the extension but does not compare the .dep files.

Either of these would have fixed my issue of missing libzstd:

1) Keep the Xorg-7.7-3d.tcz.dep file that my system downloaded when it upgraded that extension (which listed zstd.tcz as a dependency), fix the issue that zstd.tcz.dep was missing

-or-

2) Download juanito's corrected Xorg-7.7-3d.tcz.dep file (which lists libzstd.tcz as a dependency)

After either of the above, "tce-update" (or "tce-audit fetchmissing") would have discovered that libzstd.tcz was missing from my system and would have fixed my problem.

Since "tce-update" cannot detect missing or changed .dep files, I was out of luck. It's a bug with low probability of affecting a user, but I was affected by it twice in this scenario. Lucky me!

jazzbiker:
Lucky You!

Not so long ago I've caight even trickier event while using tce-update, not a bug, it can be better named bingo! I even didn't reported about it on the forum, due to its impossibility to meet with. For some reasons I expect myself to be the only one to get acquainted with it. But exploring this bingo-bug I've noticed, that opposite to tce-update, Apps didn't check dependencies during update.

So what am I to do in case if I have an extension submitted (let's imagine) and I want to update its dep file? Should I apply the meaningless changes into tcz file in order to get all the trio to be updated?

GNUser:

--- Quote from: jazzbiker on December 09, 2020, 11:55:15 AM ---So what am I to do in case if I have an extension submitted (let's imagine) and I want to update its dep file? Should I apply the meaningless changes into tcz file in order to get all the trio to be updated?

--- End quote ---
Yes, under the current system the only way for extension maintainer to make sure users get the updated .dep file during "tce-update" is for maintainer to make meaningless changes to the tcz file so that its md5sum changes.

If user wants to manually ensure that the whole trio is updated, it's enough to go into tce/optional/foo.tcz.md5.txt and change some random characters of the md5sum prior to running "tce-update".

jazzbiker:
Probably for the second case user will be happy to have some option for tce-load to force refreshing. We suppose that he faced some problems with selected extension and is haunting the way to eliminate them.
But extension, that cause the trouble today could be updated a month ago... Distorting all the existing md5 files don't looks an elegant solution, its like a hammer strike.
 

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