On August 27, 2021 7:29:35 PM EDT, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote: >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, I have an interest in the latest version of Mate for CentOS 7 as well.