Juha Saarinen wrote:
> %-> I am about to embark on an upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1. I am
> %-> currently downloading the rpms from a rawhide mirror. Is
> %-> there anything other than geting all the 4.0.4-0.43 rpms
> %-> that I need? That seems too easy. What about gnome stuff?
> %-> Will the surrent Gnome I have from a brand new 6.2 install
> %-> work?
>
> Don't think you need to update GNOME as well, but it can't hurt of course.
> However, unless I'm completely wrong, the Rawhide X 4.0.1 RPMs are in
> version 4 format. That will create problems, as updating RPM is a PITA. I
> think someone posted a message saying that RPM 3.5 (?) groks RPM 4 db files,
> but I'm not sure.
>
> Otherwise, XF86 4.0.1 is a major step forward, and IMO works much better
> than 3.3.x. You could always do it manually, and just get the tarballs plus
> the installer from www.xfree86.org, but I believe the Rawhide stuff has some
> added patches in them for RHL.
>
> -- Juha
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Thanks,
I am on my second set of downloads since the 4.0.4-0.43 are compiled with the
glib2.2 libs we'll see about the *.0.36 stuff now.
Bret
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