Kevin Fenzi wrote: >>> dumped? I've not really seen many if any bugs on epel5 xfce >>> packages... >> >> Well, last time I looked it was still trying to use the "Fedora" icons >> from the epel6 package so it seemed like it was built and left there ? > > I maintain/use Xfce in Fedora. Another interested party worked on Xfce > for epel5/6. I'd be happy to look at specific bugs, but I don't use it > day to day there, so I wouldn't have noticed this. This would be an articulated goal of the new Special Interest Group, to make sure that such bugs and wishlists are forwarded upstream... >>>> The 4.6 Xfce in EPEL 5 was less polished than 4.4 in CentOS 5 >>>> Extras. For instance, the whole group (Xfce) is missing from the >>>> EPEL comps ? >>> >>> Odd. I thought i had updated that. >> >> Maybe I'm doing it wrong... I thought it was a "feature", like the >> "@buildsys-build" group being missing (replaced that with packages). > > Nope. it should be there... I can add it, although not sure how many > people care about epel5 at this point. ;) > epel6 does have the groups... I think we are currently seeing a 50-50 split, where EL6 just passed. So I think that EL5 will probably be here 3 more years. "Red Hat XP" :-) >>>> With EPEL 7 still in beta, and no (or not many) Xfce packages being >>>> built so far - I decided to see how far off it was, by using >>>> Fedora. Not very, it turned out... It already runs (!), with some >>>> minor things like ConsoleKit/systemd and udisks/udisks2, with >>>> the .fc18 packages. >>> >>> nonamedotc at fedoraproject.org has been heading this effort on the >>> epel7 side. He's been building things in copr first and testing >>> them before building in epel. We have the base/core packages aready >>> branched. >> >> Nice! Will make contact with him/her then, and file some new Xfce >> bugs. There's some really obscure ones, like the "tab" key not >> working (!). > > Fun. ;) Thanks! Contact established, will test the new packages once they arrive. I added the packagelists from fc18, as "centos-el7-xfce-fc18.txt" >>>> The first step would be to rebuild "@xfce-desktop" properly >>>> for .el7, >>> >>> Please coordinate with nonamedotc? Or do you intend to just copy >>> this into a seperate repo? >> >> I don't think there's any need at this point, it should work right >> off EPEL. Basically the user can do: yum --enablerepo=epel >> groupinstall xfce-desktop > > Great. Thats my idea as well. Possibly we will do the whole "xfce-desktop-environment" group later. Not sure if the "xfce-media" is applicable at all, but we will see... >> Not sure what the deal is here if you *only* want to include the >> Desktops SIG, but not the rest of EPEL ? Sounds like it would involve >> rebuilding/resigning. >> >> And I have no idea why it is called "epel7" and not "el7" now, if >> that signals some further isolation ? I will be running EL, with EPEL >> disabled by default. > > It's to avoid confusion. Some people in the past saw that epel5/6 had > 'el5' and 'el6' branches and started saying things like "thats in > rhel5, see the el5 branch!". We made the epel7 branch 'epel7' to make it > clear that the packages we not RHEL, but epel. Well, there's confusion between the git branch name and the rpm dist macro ? And the tags in git.centos.org are called "c7", so there's lots of standards. --anders