[KLUG Members] Re: Ximian on RH 7.3?

[Adam Williams]

>>Can the Ximian for RH 7.2 be run on RH 7.3?
>>I suspect not.
>Not without a few issues here and there.  Of course RedHat is including
>a lot of the Gnome 1.4 stuff in 7.3 now.

True, and that includes Evolution, Mr. Project, and GNOME Meeting.  Other 
than gaSQL and other gnomedb related apps these three are only KILLER 
(IHMO) apps that up to this poing have ~required~ Ximian GNOME.

I haven't seen what version of GNUCash RH73 ships with, but I assume it is 
a 1.6.x variant as it has been out awhile.  1.6.x was a huge improvement 
over 1.4.x

>>Do we have to wait for Ximian to release support for RH 7.3? >
>No.  You can try rebuilding from Ximian SRPMS or tarballs.  

Unless you've got a peppy machine, they might have released by the time 
that last src.rpm gets done building. :)

>I'm just
>going to wait on the release, and save myself the trouble.

Me too.  I'm still happy with SGI-RH72

>Of course, you could just do an RPM upgrade from RedHat 7.2 to 7.3 and
>upgrade only what you need.  I do this all the time as long as the major
>version number is the same (e.g., any 7.x to any 7.y).

This works well,  I do most of my upgrading this way.  After you force 
install the redhat-release package the rest is usually pretty smooth.

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