Hi all,
I'm looking for a tool to create and manage the users' profiles in GNOME desktop environment.
I've searched Pessulus (included in GNOME admin tools by default according GNOME docs) whitout success. I've tried to compile Sabayon (the CentOS rpm is not avaiable I think) but there are a lot of dependencies to resolve.
¿Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 11:34 +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
I've tried to compile Sabayon (the CentOS rpm is not avaiable I think) but there are a lot of dependencies to resolve.
You won't be able to use Sabayon to build profiles on a CentOS box. As you discovered, there are a lot of dependencies that will require upgrading to non-CentOS package versions. Sabayon is really built for Gnome 2.10 and up (I believe 2.12+ is preferred).
What you can do is grab the sabayon RPM from FC4, and install it on a CentOS 4 box with the rpm commands "--nodeps" option. That gives you 50% of the solution. sabayon-admin is the other 50%, and for that you'll have to use FC4 - it will not run on CentOS 4.
So, you can use FC4 to build/create your Gnome profiles with sabayon-admin, and then copy those profiles over to your CentOS box. The profiles will be applied by sabayon, which _does_ run in CentOS (even though not all dependencies can be met). Although the profiles will have been built on FC4, which came with Gnome 2.10 (I believe), they will still work in CentOS 4, which comes with Gnome 2.8. gconf is backwards compatible: new gconf keys are ignored in older versions of gconf. Well, that's how it's supposed to work, anyway.
I hope that makes sense. I posted a more detailed step-by-step to the sabyon list: check it out for more info.
BTW, I doing this for one of my clients that is running a Linux thin client environment (Thinstation + CentOS 4.4). Works great, no problems.
Regards,
Ranbir
You won't be able to use Sabayon to build profiles on a CentOS box. As you discovered, there are a lot of dependencies that will require upgrading to non-CentOS package versions. Sabayon is really built for Gnome 2.10 and up (I believe 2.12+ is preferred).
:-/
What you can do is grab the sabayon RPM from FC4, and install it on a CentOS 4 box with the rpm commands "--nodeps" option. That gives you 50% of the solution. sabayon-admin is the other 50%, and for that you'll have to use FC4 - it will not run on CentOS 4.
What a pity!
So, you can use FC4 to build/create your Gnome profiles with sabayon-admin, and then copy those profiles over to your CentOS box. The profiles will be applied by sabayon, which _does_ run in CentOS (even though not all dependencies can be met). Although the profiles will have been built on FC4, which came with Gnome 2.10 (I believe), they will still work in CentOS 4, which comes with Gnome 2.8. gconf is backwards compatible: new gconf keys are ignored in older versions of gconf. Well, that's how it's supposed to work, anyway.
Curious method. The "trouble" is I would need to mount a FC system in other box only for this purpose.
I hope that makes sense. I posted a more detailed step-by-step to the sabyon list: check it out for more info.
Yes Ranbir, I've read it before: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sabayon-list/2006-January/msg00005.html
BTW, I doing this for one of my clients that is running a Linux thin client environment (Thinstation + CentOS 4.4). Works great, no problems.
Ok, good for you. I've done all you specify in refered post and if I execute sabayon binary I get a python error.
¿?¿?
¿Is there another way/tool to create/manage GNOME profiles?
Thanks for info.
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Jordi Espasa Clofent -
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu