Okay, so this isn't vital information, but I thought it might be useful for somebody. Today I spent most of my workday running 'rpm -tb suchandsuch.tar.gz' against the source tarballs for GNOME 1.4. Several of them wouldn't go, but those weren't important. Many of them had mangled spec files, which I tweaked into submission. To make a long story short, I updated the key GNOME packages, avoided anything that my Evo snaps had a "newer" version of, and went back into X, GNOME and Evo without a hitch. Only time will tell if I've mangled something and just don't know it yet, but so far so good. I'll be glad to see Ximian packages for this thing, I don't mind telling you. Rolling your own is all well and good, but it's also a good thing there weren't any emergencies today that demanded more of my attention (and a working desktop environment). fwiw: - Evo 0.9 +cvs.2001.03.27.09.00, which (near as I can tell by reading this list) seems to be among the last reasonably-usable snapshot builds. - Redhat 6.2 "core" (heavily, heavily patched since then, among other things) - Linux kernel 2.4.0 - XFree86 4.0.2 (Voodoo3 chipset, 1280x1024x16bit) - Enlightenment 0.16.5 (with some odd extras/whatnot from the newer CVS code.) - And other stuff you probably aren't interested in. *g* -- --- Karel P Kerezman - IS Admin, Entercom Portland LLC - http://zero.kgon.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gets parity errors under load. --------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Canonical Fulldeckisms List: http://www.herbison.com/canon --- _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.helixcode.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
