Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the purpose of running Gnome 2.7. I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm running Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis of comparison to track down bugs. I'd like to know if there are any reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there? My interest is in tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora. That means the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me. I'd like to have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep both machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.
I know there are garnome and jhbuild but this is a slow machine so I don't feel like building from source. I have found this repo so far:
http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/downloads/
I'm just wondering if there are any other repositories out there or if anyone has any experience with using rpms from here. If anyone can point me in a possible direction that would be great. Thanks.
Tom
man, 09,.08.2004 kl. 03.56 +0000, skrev Tom McLaughlin:
Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the purpose of running Gnome 2.7. I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm running Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis of comparison to track down bugs. I'd like to know if there are any reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there? My interest is in tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora. That means the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me. I'd like to have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep both machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.
GNOME 2.7.x has started appearing in rawhide/the development tree on the ftp servers. You're probably better off testing what is to become the official packages I guess, so start beta testing now? :)
Cheers Kjartan
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 07:34 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
man, 09,.08.2004 kl. 03.56 +0000, skrev Tom McLaughlin:
Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the
purpose
of running Gnome 2.7. I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm
running
Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis
of
comparison to track down bugs. I'd like to know if there are any reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there? My interest is
in
tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora. That
means
the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me. I'd like
to
have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep
both
machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.
GNOME 2.7.x has started appearing in rawhide/the development tree on the ftp servers. You're probably better off testing what is to become the official packages I guess, so start beta testing now? :)
With the 2.7.x series, rawhide has only been a few days behind Matt's repository. I know in the past, Matt has hacked in some things like some of the Ximian patches, but I don't know if he's still doing that. And other than the default panel and theme settings, I don't think Fedora's packages are tweaked that much, though I could be wrong.
Cheers Kjartan
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:56 -0700, Michael Knepher wrote:
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 07:34 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
man, 09,.08.2004 kl. 03.56 +0000, skrev Tom McLaughlin:
Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the
purpose
of running Gnome 2.7. I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm
running
Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis
of
comparison to track down bugs. I'd like to know if there are any reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there? My interest is
in
tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora. That
means
the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me. I'd like
to
have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep
both
machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.
GNOME 2.7.x has started appearing in rawhide/the development tree on the ftp servers. You're probably better off testing what is to become the official packages I guess, so start beta testing now? :)
With the 2.7.x series, rawhide has only been a few days behind Matt's repository. I know in the past, Matt has hacked in some things like some of the Ximian patches, but I don't know if he's still doing that. And other than the default panel and theme settings, I don't think Fedora's packages are tweaked that much, though I could be wrong.
Okay, cool. I just wanted to make sure both of my machines would be similar so I had a good reference. Thanks a bunch for the info.
Tom
Cheers Kjartan
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