On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:49:15PM +1200, 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.
You shouldn't need to. X is X, protocolwise. The whole point is that it
work this way. I should be able to invoke GNOME clients on a redhat box
and display them on a Solaris X server. And I can.
| 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.
Updating rpm is easy. RH62 comes with rpm v4 I think. The very latest rpm v3 (3.0.5
AFAIR) groks v4 rpm files. So, on a RH6.1 box for exmaple (having done exactly this a
couple of days ago) you go:
fetch rpm-3.0.5 from the RedHat 6.1 UPDATES directory and install:
rpm -Uv rpm-3.0.5.....
fetch rpm-4.whatever-it-is from the Redhat 6.2 distro and install
with your cool new rpm v3:
rpm -Uv rpm-4.........
Mission accomplished. You can now be happy with the XFree86 rpm files.
| Otherwise, XF86 4.0.1 is a major step forward, and IMO works much better
| than 3.3.x.
Aside from the internals, which sound much cleaner, how much nicer is it
externally? (I sepak as one considering running it.)
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