Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:49 +0100, Kay Diederichs wrote: >> Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> There are new versions of nx and freenx for CentOS-4 i386 in the testing >>> repo: >>> >>> freenx-0.5.0-11.c4.i386.rpm >>> nx-2.1.0-2.c4.i386.rpm >>> >>> I am using this on 3 servers and it seems at least as stable as the >>> previous versions. These RPMS roll in the latest nx-2.1.x server >>> components from nomachine.org (current CentOS-4 version has nx-1.5.x >>> server components). >>> >>> The full screen patch was retained across versions and seems to work OK >>> here as well. >>> >>> If you are using the CentOS version of NX / FreeNX, please test this >>> version and provide feedback on this list. Barring any show stopping >>> negative feedback, these RPMS will replace the current versions in >>> CentOS extras in 2 weeks. >>> >>> Testing repository .repo file: >>> http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo >>> >>> Packages can be download manually here: >>> http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Johnny Hughes >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS-devel mailing list >>> CentOS-devel at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >> I have been using the 32bit CentOS-provided freenx / nx successfully on >> x86_64 systems. I believe they require >> nxsetup --purge --uninstall >> nxsetup >> after the initial install, but then they work just fine. >> Now I'd like to update them to the testing ones, using yum. How can I do >> this - the .repo file in your posting does not work - my $basearch is >> wrong !? I think yum should have an option to override $basearch, or the >> i386 packages should somehow be visible in the x86_64 repo. >> >> Clearly I can download the .rpms and run yum or rpm directly, but there >> ought to be a more elegant way ... >> >> Kay > > Kay, > > They are both .i386 packages and I could put them in the x86_64 repo ... > but I haven't checked that all the dependancies are meet in the other > parts of the x86_64 repo. > > I will test that now and see if that is the case. > > The source from No Machine will not compile on x86_64, or we would have > an x86_64 version. Since the source did not work for x86_64, I was > concentrating on making that work and I didn't think to try to make the > i386 version work on x86_64 :) > > For the purposes of testing, could you please manually download them and > install ... and if everything i386 required to support NX/FREENX is in > the base x86_64 repo already, then when we move these into production, I > can also put it into the x86_64 repo too. > > I am going to start looking at that aspect of it right now. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel Johnny, manual installation of the i386 packages (freenx used to be a .noarch package which seems more appropriate, why did that change?) on x86_64 worked well. A few moments ago, "yum update" to today's versions (now that they are in the x86_64 directory) also worked well. One thing that does not function as it used to is color management: the new nxserver produces the wrong colors in the client's window for some apps (I use xosview - all the colours in the bars are the same). This was no problem with the old version of nxserver. best, Kay