Hello Greg,
On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:19:29 -0700 Greg Bailey gbailey@lxpro.com wrote:
On 8/27/21 1:50 PM, wwp wrote:
Hello Greg,
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 09:06:23 -0700 Greg Bailey gbailey@lxpro.com wrote:
There's been discussions in the past about updating MATE RPMs in EPEL-7: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436260 https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173154.html (and lots of others...)
As a proof-of-concept, I've written some scripts that clone specific commits from the Fedora master branches, and then runs a tool to re-apply RPM scriptlets that are required by EL7 but removed from the Fedora .spec files.
The scripts are available at: https://github.com/gebailey/mate-rpms/tree/master/1.20/el7
There's also instructions there if you want to try upgrading to MATE 1.20 w/o rebuilding them yourself.
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Nice to see such effort (and sorry I'm very late), did you appear to have maintained that to follow more recent MATE versions?
I haven't updated those RPMs, since I've since moved to CentOS 8, and have been using the MATE RPM set provided by:
Thanks for your quick response! I'll try building from the sources while I'm stuck with C7 :-).
Regards,