Hello Greg, On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:19:29 -0700 Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com> wrote: > 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 for your quick response! I'll try building from the sources while I'm stuck with C7 :-). Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20210828/f2d236ca/attachment-0004.sig>