Hi, all
I have build a patched kdepim package for CJK user. More specifically, Knode is patched to support locale-dependent groupname encoding.
CJK means Chinese, Japanese and Korean. They all need multi-byte charset(MBCS).
A RFC requires that all newsgroup groupnames are encoded in UTF-8. Most newsreaders under UNIX are designed this way. But due to Microsoft products' feature(or call it bug), locale-dependent groupname encoding is the de facto standard in some CJK area.
This package changes knode's behavior from UTF-8 to locale-dependent encoding, and will be helpful to CJK users. Non-CJK users probably will not need this package. And this package replaces the official kdepim package. Therefore, I think this package should go to centosplus directory.
The knode patch is not written by me. I only build this kdepim package. It is from a chinese Linux distribution called Magic Linux. You can get the original patch from
http://www.magiclinux.org/dev/old-1.2/cd1/SRPMS/kdepim-3.3.2-1mgc.src.rpm
The original package is GPLed. So this patch is available under GPL.
I, and some other users, have tested this patch, and it works.
I hope this package can be merged into the CentOS repository(centosplus directory).
And, I do not have a stable and secure space to store this package, I request a space(for example, a ftp account or a web space) at least 15M bytes large, so I can upload the SRPM.
dlion wrote:
The knode patch is not written by me. I only build this kdepim package. It is from a chinese Linux distribution called Magic Linux. You can get the original patch from
http://www.magiclinux.org/dev/old-1.2/cd1/SRPMS/kdepim-3.3.2-1mgc.src.rpm
The original package is GPLed. So this patch is available under GPL.
I, and some other users, have tested this patch, and it works.
I hope this package can be merged into the CentOS repository(centosplus directory).
I doubt it. The best course of action is to submit this to redhat, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and see if *they* will merge/accept the patch. If they do, then CentOS will follow suit.
-- Rex
On 10/31/05, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
dlion wrote:
The knode patch is not written by me. I only build this kdepim package. It is from a chinese Linux distribution called Magic Linux. You can get the original patch from
http://www.magiclinux.org/dev/old-1.2/cd1/SRPMS/kdepim-3.3.2-1mgc.src.rpm
The original package is GPLed. So this patch is available under GPL.
I, and some other users, have tested this patch, and it works.
I hope this package can be merged into the CentOS repository(centosplus directory).
I doubt it. The best course of action is to submit this to redhat, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and see if *they* will merge/accept the patch. If they do, then CentOS will follow suit.
I think you missed the point. The point is the packages in centosplus will not be installed by default. So it WILL NOT HURT. Only those know about it will try to use it. That's a totally different thing than tell Redhat and wait, until the patch is available to EVERYONE. Most non-CJK people do not need it.
dlion wrote:
I think you missed the point. The point is the packages in centosplus will not be installed by default. So it WILL NOT HURT. Only those know about it will try to use it. That's a totally different thing than tell Redhat and wait, until the patch is available to EVERYONE. Most non-CJK people do not need it.
Er,
Why don't we do both? Put it into centosplus AND submit the patched version to Red Hat. Then, if Red Hat decides to make it the "official" version, we can remove it from centosplus and the "officail" srpm percolates to CentOS. If Red Hat decides, for whatever reason, that they do not want to use it, we still have it in centosplus.
Just a thought,
Shawn M. Jones
On 10/31/05, Shawn M. Jones smj@littleprojects.org wrote:
dlion wrote:
I think you missed the point. The point is the packages in centosplus will not be installed by default. So it WILL NOT HURT. Only those know about it will try to use it. That's a totally different thing than tell Redhat and wait, until the patch is available to EVERYONE. Most non-CJK people do not need it.
Er,
Why don't we do both? Put it into centosplus AND submit the patched version to Red Hat. Then, if Red Hat decides to make it the "official" version, we can remove it from centosplus and the "officail" srpm percolates to CentOS. If Red Hat decides, for whatever reason, that they do not want to use it, we still have it in centosplus.
Just a thought,
Shawn M. Jones
I totally agree.
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