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
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