Gnome 2.7 on Fedora

[Tom McLaughlin]

Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the purpose
of running Gnome 2.7.  I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm running
Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis of
comparison to track down bugs.  I'd like to know if there are any
reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there?  My interest is in
tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora.  That means
the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me.  I'd like to
have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep both
machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.

I know there are garnome and jhbuild but this is a slow machine so I
don't feel like building from source.  I have found this repo so far:

http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/downloads/

I'm just wondering if there are any other repositories out there or if
anyone has any experience with using rpms from here. If anyone can point
me in a possible direction that would be great.  Thanks.

Tom

[Kjartan Maraas]

man, 09,.08.2004 kl. 03.56 +0000, skrev Tom McLaughlin:
>  Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the
> purpose
>  of running Gnome 2.7.  I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm running
>  Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis of
>  comparison to track down bugs.  I'd like to know if there are any
>  reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there?  My interest is in
>  tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora.  That means
>  the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me.  I'd like to
>  have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep both
>  machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.
>   
GNOME 2.7.x has started appearing in rawhide/the development tree on the
ftp servers. You're probably better off testing what is to become the
official packages I guess, so start beta testing now? :)

Cheers
Kjartan

[Michael Knepher]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 07:34 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
>  man, 09,.08.2004 kl. 03.56 +0000, skrev Tom McLaughlin:
>  > Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the
>  purpose
>  > of running Gnome 2.7.  I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm
>  running
>  > Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis
>  of
>  > comparison to track down bugs.  I'd like to know if there are any
>  > reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there?  My interest is
>  in
>  > tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora.  That
>  means
>  > the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me.  I'd like
>  to
>  > have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep
>  both
>  > machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.
>  > 
>  
>  GNOME 2.7.x has started appearing in rawhide/the development tree on
>  the
>  ftp servers. You're probably better off testing what is to become the
>  official packages I guess, so start beta testing now? :) 
With the 2.7.x series, rawhide has only been a few days behind Matt's
repository. I know in the past, Matt has hacked in some things like some
of the Ximian patches, but I don't know if he's still doing that. And
other than the default panel and theme settings, I don't think Fedora's
packages are tweaked that much, though I could be wrong.

>  
>  Cheers
>  Kjartan
>  
>

[Tom McLaughlin]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:56 -0700, Michael Knepher wrote:
>  On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 07:34 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
>  > man, 09,.08.2004 kl. 03.56 +0000, skrev Tom McLaughlin:
>  > > Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the
>  > purpose
>  > > of running Gnome 2.7.  I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm
>  > running
>  > > Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis
>  > of
>  > > comparison to track down bugs.  I'd like to know if there are any
>  > > reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there?  My interest is
>  > in
>  > > tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora.  That
>  > means
>  > > the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me.  I'd like
>  > to
>  > > have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep
>  > both
>  > > machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > GNOME 2.7.x has started appearing in rawhide/the development tree on
>  > the
>  > ftp servers. You're probably better off testing what is to become the
>  > official packages I guess, so start beta testing now? :)
>  
>  With the 2.7.x series, rawhide has only been a few days behind Matt's
>  repository. I know in the past, Matt has hacked in some things like some
>  of the Ximian patches, but I don't know if he's still doing that. And
>  other than the default panel and theme settings, I don't think Fedora's
>  packages are tweaked that much, though I could be wrong.
>   
Okay, cool.  I just wanted to make sure both of my machines would be
similar so I had a good reference.  Thanks a bunch for the info.

Tom

>  > 
>  > Cheers
>  > Kjartan
>  > 
>  > 
>  
>