Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 06/18/06 17:49 CST: > [snip a perhaps too-detailed version of figuring out what packages > belong with what version of GNOME
Dan provided a good (but complicated) way to determine the package versions that correspond to an official GNOME release. Here is, in my opinion anyway, an easier method which is less likely to have incompatibilities. Simply use the packages outlined in the current version of GNOME from these two directory tarball repositories: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop >From these two directories (one is the core platform packages, the other is the core application packages) simply navigate to the release of GNOME you want and use the packages shown in the directory. For example: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.14/2.14.2/sources/ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.14/2.14.2/sources/ The contents of these two directories include all the GNOME packages you'd need to build a complete release. There may be some other packages you want to build also, but this would probably be for specialty purposes. These versions have been tested to build properly together and provide a solid, stable desktop. <disclaimer> Of course, bugs and security notices mean that there may be a release of some packages after the official GNOME version has been released, as Dan mentioned, and this is when you'd need to look in the individual package sources for any newly released packages. Which is here: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ But my experience is that it is fairly rare when you need to go to the individual package sources. </disclaimer> -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 17:55:00 up 37 days, 9:55, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
