[64studio-devel] Backport of GNOME 2.18

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Lincoln,

|--==> Lincoln Spiteri writes:

  LS> Hi Free,
  LS> Yes seems to work fine here too. Been working all morning with gnome
  LS> upgraded. Only issue is that I lost synaptic due to missing
  LS> dependencies but I managed to re-install using apt-get.

Thank you for having tested that. Do you experience any difference
with respect the old GNOME 2.14? (better performance, more feature
etc.)

Ciao!

Free

  LS> On 04/08/07, Free Ekanayaka <free at 64studio.com> wrote:
  >>Hi all,
  >>
  >>I've almost completed the backport of GNOME 2.18 for etch. It seems to
  >>work fine on this 64 Studio 2.0 box, but before including it in the
  >>testing repository I would like to have some more feedback.
  >>
  >>To install it from a plain 2.0 (or from bleeding-edge 64studio/testing)
  >>just add this repo to your sources:
  >>
  >>deb http://apt.64studio.com/backports etch main contrib non-free
  >>
  >>and run:
  >>
  >>apt-get dist-upgrade
  >>
  >>Make also sure that you don't have repos other than 64studio (either
  >>stable or testing) and etch. Note that apt will probably want to
  >>remove the update-manager package, that's fine (I didn't backport it
  >>yet). If you get questions about configuration files just answer "yes"
  >>(that means "install the new maintainer version") and after the
  >>process run:
  >>
  >>update-dspyco-skel
  >>/var/lib/dpkg/info/64studio-themes.postinst configure
  >>
  >>if you want to restore the 64studio customisations.
  >>
  >>I would like to know your impressions about this new 2.18 version, in
  >>particular if it makes a real difference wrt 2.14 and if it is worth
  >>to include it in the forthcoming 3.0, which will most probably based
  >>again on Etch (lenny is still far away) and so would otherwise sport
  >>GNOME 2.14 again.
  >>
  >>Personally, even if I would find it a pity to release 64 Studio with
  >>GNOME 2.14, now that we are approaching GNOME 2.20, I would
  >>nevertheless stick to GNOME 2.14, because the port of 2.18 involve
  >>more than one hundred packages and the divergence to etch would be
  >>significant. On the other hand some people could possibly find it odd,
  >>that 64 Studio runs such an old GNOME and choose more up to date
  >>alternatives.
  >>
  >>Ciao,
  >>
  >>Free
  >>
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