Hi Thanks, I'll grab the desktop sources ready for the book. The 2 directories doesn't seem that difficult to understand. Thanks.
Gena On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > 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 ---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
