[arch-general] netcdf problem after arch update

[Eli Schwartz]

On 05/11/2016 02:16 PM, Fulcrum wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Is is possible to revert back to the previous version of netcdf? Since 
> one of the tools (pyscan) is a portable script, I don't know how can I 
> 'rebuild' it to work with the newer version of netcdf.
> 
> Also, I would prefer it very much to avoid rebuilding the other tool 
> (gasflow) because it takes a long time, and various other difficulties 
> (It has many other dependencies which may cause other problems). It was 
> a headache to install it in the first place.

While it is certainly possible to downgrade a package manually (see the
Wiki link Ilya provided), Arch doesn't support partial upgrades. So this
may not be a great long-term solution, since it will break the
repository packages which depend on netcdf.

You may be able to get away with merely relinking gasflow, which will
take less time than a full rebuild of all source files.

As for pyscan, it is probably making use of a binary which is itself
linked to the old libnetcdf.so -- you will have to track that down.

-- 
Eli Schwartz