for atom use specific version of electron

[muayyad-alsadi]

Atom community want to stick with electron 0.37.8 (which is actually a 1.0.1)
because more recent version dropped deprecated functions.
More recent electron versions is know to case problems.

atom/atom#11967
atom/autocomplete-plus#722
atom/autocomplete-plus#726

[1dot75cm]

Thanks report. @muayyad-alsadi
More recent electron (node 6) versions does cause a lot of problems. Developers need time for the plugin compatible with the new API. Some old plugin have even stopped maintaining. I think that stability of the editor is the most important.

I plan update electron in atom-dev and atom is stable forever. :-)))~

[muayyad-alsadi]

Are you going to push updates to copr with higher epoch so that rpm would automatically downgrade electron version?

[1dot75cm]

Yes~ i will downgrade electron version by update atom.spec.

[1dot75cm]

Hi @muayyad-alsadi
I have been downgraded electron version via 346724 and 346728. Please test it. Thanks.

Addition, you can use alternatives command to switch multiversion with electron. For example:

$ alternatives --config electron
  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
*+ 1           /usr/lib64/electron/0.37.8/electron

[muayyad-alsadi]

seems fine

[alsadi@localhost ~]$ atom --version
Atom    : 1.8.0
Electron: 0.37.8
Chrome  : 49.0.2623.75
Node    : 5.10.0

[1dot75cm]

Same problem. UnitedRPMs/atom#1

[muayyad-alsadi]

why dnf want to give me 1.x instead of 0.37 ?

[root@localhost ~]# dnf update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:06:36 ago on Wed Jun 22 10:31:38 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
======================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                Arch                Version                              Repository                                      Size
======================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 electron                               x86_64              1.2.3-2.prebuilt.fc23                mosquito-atom                                   32 M

[muayyad-alsadi]

in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf what is the role of

installonlypkgs=electron

[1dot75cm]

in dnf.conf man page say: @muayyad-alsadi

List of provide names of packages that should only ever be installed, never upgraded. Kernels in particular fall into this category. These packages are never removed by dnf autoremove even if they were installed as dependencies (see clean_requirements_on_remove for auto removal details). This option overrides the default installonlypkgs list used by DNF. The number of kept package versions is regulated by installonly_limit.

[muayyad-alsadi]

yes, you removed the kernel from that list which cased the fedora 24 upgrade to become broken

[muayyad-alsadi]

reported separately #129