[CentOS] MATE 1.20 test build for CentOS 7 available

Fri Aug 27 23:19:29 UTC 2021
Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com>

On 8/27/21 1:50 PM, wwp wrote:
> Hello Greg,
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 09:06:23 -0700 Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
> [snip]
>
> Nice to see such effort (and sorry I'm very late), did you appear to
> have maintained that to follow more recent MATE versions?
>
>

I haven't updated those RPMs, since I've since moved to CentOS 8, and 
have been using the MATE RPM set provided by:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stenstorp/MATE/

thanks,
Greg