Greg Bailey writes: > Hi everyone, > > 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. > > If these packages work for others, perhaps we can revisit the idea of > updating the epel7 branches of the Fedora git repos and submitting an > official update. > > There's nothing here (yet) about building MATE 1.22 (which might require a > newer gcc for EL7), or building anything on CentOS 8, but thought the CentOS > 7 users might find this helpful. I've had 1.20 running on CentOS7 for a while, based on my own updates to the 1.16 rpms from EPEL. Not so lucky for mate 1.22. Updating my own rpms to 1.22 as well as a rebuild of the Fedora 30 rpms do not create functional rpms. Some components work, some don't.