On 7/27/07, beast <beast at ldap.or.id> wrote: > On 27/07/07 10:13 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >I have not tried to integrate the newest OOo2 into CentOS-5 (or even > >CentOS-4.5) since both have OOo-2.0.4 integrated. Are there REALLY that > >many new features that you MUST upgrade from a Stable 2.0.4 to a new 2.2.x? > > Not today, but next year OOo 2.0 will be outdated and if asking for a support > most people will ask to get the latest version. > My reasons is because the recent OO provides better compatibility with the latest MS > Office, since it is a critical to our company which exchange the document in > MS office format with the customer. > > >Well ... you would have to rebuild a newer version other than the one on > >FC6 ... which MIGHT still work on CentOS-5. However, in the future as > >tomcat, glibc and other build requires diverge between FC6 and CentOS-5 > >it will be less likely to work. > > > >In a 8 months when there is no more FC6 support, that will stop working > >anyway. > > This is what i'm worry about... > > >=== OR === create a process to use the OOo RPMS > >directly from the OpenOffice.org website. > > > > I also thinking this is the best possible solution. > Get the OO package from openoffice.org site and then add desktop integration ourself. > But, will it mess up the whole thing when we i do 'yum upgrade'? > > > --beast It won't mess up the whole thing if you exclude openoffice in your yum configuration. Yum will happily ignore openoffice from that point forward. HTH, Alex White