Last Friday I wrote: > According to Peter D. Junger: > > I was just in the process of installing ht://Dig on a couple > > of boxes running RedHat 7.2, using the RPMs that come with > > that distribution when I saw this announcement. > > > > Can I expect there to be RPMs for the 3.1.6 release shortly, or > > should I just go ahead and install it from the tarball? > > I'm looking at this matter right now, but I doubt I'll be able to finish > it today, which may mean it won't be until Tuesday before I have a working > RPM for 7.2. The problem is that on 7.2, KDE uses htdig to index the > documentation, and for some incomprehensible reason they went with > the 3.2.0b3 beta (which was thoroughly unreliable), and later issued > an update using a late October snapshot of 3.2.0b4 (which was better, > but still not ideal). I think it would make a lot more sense to use the > 3.1.6 stable release for now, until 3.2.0b4 is out and halfway solid. > However, I want to build the RPM for 3.1.6 the same way they built the > htdig-3.2.0-1.b4.0.72 RPM so I don't break anything. At the very least, > I need to make sure the paths are the same.
OK, I got an htdig 3.1.6 package working on 7.2 by the end of the day last Friday, but I got caught up trying to verify that it works with KDE. For some reason, the "Search" tab has disappeared from hhelpcenter, even before I replaced the htdig-3.2.0-1.b4.0.72 with my htdig-3.1.6-0.rh72 package. I'm assuming something went wrong when I installed the KDE update rpms Red Hat issued in late January. Unfortunately, after hours of searching documentation and poking around on the system, I have been unable to revive KDE Help Center's search capability. Peter, if you or anyone else on this list has KDE working on Red Hat 7.2 and would want to test out the Search capability in khelpcenter before and after installing my htdig-3.1.6-0.rh72 package, please let me know if I've broken anything (beyond that which seems to be broken on my own system). The RPMs are in http://www.htdig.org/files/binaries/ now, but please carefully read the README.RPMS.txt file in there before installing, as there are a few "gotchas" involved with the Red Hat 7.2 packages. I'll wait a day or two for feedback before posting the announcement for these packages. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
