<quote who="Andy Eager">
> Yeh, I know and thats the problem. They upgrade their packages (quite
> considerably ) and still called it 1.4. I know that's like having RedHat
> 6.2 with a 2.2.19 kernel, but at least in RedHat's case, the distro
> release does give some indication of backward compatability - Not the case
> here I can assure you.
Well, every GNOME package is versioned separately. Ximian are currently only
shipping their somewhat modified GNOME 1.4, plus security updates, and a
couple of packages that have been released post-1.4. We should be seeing a
1.4.1 release soon enough, thanks to Seth and Kjartan. :)
> If you keep a copy of the redcarpet package directory
> (/var/cache/redcarpet) somewhere on your network and then copy it back to
> /var/cache/redcarpet when you do your upgrade, it only takes an hour or
> two (closer to two but not 7 - 8 hours as the full 115 M from scratch
> would take).
Or: Debian, apt, and NFS mounted /var/cache/apt/archives. :)
- Jeff
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