Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (44 mails)

[JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 15:35 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 14:40 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > > > The downside of course is not being able to get more testing on 10.2 -
> > > > unless we can get that compatibility package built asap which might make
> > > > 2.18 feasible on 10.2.
> > > 
> > > opt_gnome-compat works well and I am using 10.2+GNOME2.18 without any
> > > problems. That is why the repository is so large.
> > 
> > Nice! If thats the case, I guess there is no real issue, we should
> > pre-announce that 2.18 is moving to G:S, explain that opt_gnome-compat
> > is necessary for 10.2, actually move it and then start the 2.19 march in
> > G:U.
> 
> It is not necessary, unless you have any package still present
> in /opt/gnome. This package deletes itself automatically after
> installation, it it considers itself as obsolete.

Things like rcxdm will still look for binaries in /opt/gnome right?

> Only minor things don't work, e. g.:
> - bi-prefix gstreamer plugins path (introduces bi-arch problems).
> - Compilation against libraries linked against moved libraries before
>   the move. This is a "feature" of libtool. Can be worked-around by a
>   tons of symlinks to .la files or by deleting of these .la files.
> 
> > Now, I'm not sure 2.19 is what we want to jam into factory immediately.
> > Is there anyway we can work around that?
> 
> We can continue to work in GNOME:UNSTABLE. But it needs definitely
> consultation with Autobuild team. I cannot imagine merging of FACTORY
> patches to GNOME:UNSTABLE after several months of independent
> development.

See other mail for possible solutions.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell, Inc.

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