On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:49:44PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Generally the way things go with Gnome is that if a package is > following the overall version numbering (2.14.0,2.14.1,...) then they > will usually release a new version for each of those releases, even if > it's just translations that have been updated. This is not always the > case, as you've seen. In that case, fetch the most recent stable > version (they are the even minor numbers: 2.12.x,2.14.x,...). In > other cases, a package may have more intermittent releases to fix bugs > like gdm. I believe it is on 2.14.8 right now. > > The packages that follow this scheme are typically the ones that are > part of the "official" gnome distribution. These correspond to the > ones Randy has put in the book. Some packages don't follow this > trend, like gcalc and gnome-volume-manager. In those cases, you have > to do some research to find out what corresponds to the latest stable > Gnome distribution. Oh, I see, I think. It still seems fuzzy logic to me. I guess if the list I retrieved stated that it was an full release and that there was an official release. If the list just corresponded with the directory, it would make a lot of sense to me. Alternatively, 2.14.2 just contained 2.14.2 versions of packages. But where they'd put packages such as intltool would really cause a problem.
As you said you have to research a bit. Many thanks for the explaination. Gena > > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page ---end quoted text--- -- Wow! Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
