Hello, just a little question: Exists a way to update the Gnome 2.28.1 out of box at Centos 6.4 to a Gnome 3? And if yes...how does this work? thanks a lot. -- thanks + bye ajh
On 07/24/2013 07:44 AM, AJH wrote:> Hello, > > just a little question: > > Exists a way to update the Gnome 2.28.1 out of box at Centos 6.4 to a > Gnome 3? > > And if yes...how does this work? > > thanks a lot. > > -- > > thanks + bye ajh > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosI too would like to know if this is possible, and if so, how one would go about doing it?.. EGO II
On 07/24/2013 06:44 AM, AJH wrote:> Hello, > > just a little question: > > Exists a way to update the Gnome 2.28.1 out of box at Centos 6.4 to a > Gnome 3? > > And if yes...how does this work? > > thanks a lot.There is no supported way to do this. This would not be easy to accomplish, but it would be theoretically possible. You would have to build gtk3 and then build all the gnome3 apps ... and then you would have to rebuild all the CentOS-6.4 packages that depend on any of the gnome2 development libraries with gnome3 as replacements. I would recommend that if you really MUST have gnome 3, you either use gnome2 now and wait for RHEL-7 to be released (then we will release CentOS-7 ... which will have gnome3) ... or that you instead use the latest Fedora as your desktop (You can get Fedora 19 now ... Fedora 18 is also still supported for 6 or so months). Remember that base CentOS is not designed to have the latest and greatest packages, it is designed to be stable and provide support for the things it is released with for 10 years. That said, if there are a number of Developers out there who would be interested in building gnome3 for the CentOS-6 branch, we do Special Interest Groups to add things to CentOS. The Xen4CentOS project is an example of this. If enough people, who have the knowledge and skill to actually build gnome3 on CentOS-6, desire a new SIG to be created then that can be done. We would need some assurances that this SIG would be there for the long haul and they would have at least one person from the upstream Gnome Project in order to form. If such a group did want to form, the CentOS-Devel mailing list would be the place for it to happen. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130724/5f2e1c96/attachment-0002.sig>
In addition to building GTK3, they would also have to update glib2, glibc, atk, and roughly a dozen or more additional packages to support just building base GNOME 3. It would be a monumental change leaving them with a distribution that was no longer CentOS. Just adding my $.02 in-case it helps. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:> On 07/24/2013 06:44 AM, AJH wrote: > > Hello, > > > > just a little question: > > > > Exists a way to update the Gnome 2.28.1 out of box at Centos 6.4 to a > > Gnome 3? > > > > And if yes...how does this work? > > > > thanks a lot. > > There is no supported way to do this. This would not be easy to > accomplish, but it would be theoretically possible. You would have to > build gtk3 and then build all the gnome3 apps ... and then you would > have to rebuild all the CentOS-6.4 packages that depend on any of the > gnome2 development libraries with gnome3 as replacements. > > I would recommend that if you really MUST have gnome 3, you either use > gnome2 now and wait for RHEL-7 to be released (then we will release > CentOS-7 ... which will have gnome3) ... or that you instead use the > latest Fedora as your desktop (You can get Fedora 19 now ... Fedora 18 > is also still supported for 6 or so months). > > Remember that base CentOS is not designed to have the latest and > greatest packages, it is designed to be stable and provide support for > the things it is released with for 10 years. > > That said, if there are a number of Developers out there who would be > interested in building gnome3 for the CentOS-6 branch, we do Special > Interest Groups to add things to CentOS. The Xen4CentOS project is an > example of this. If enough people, who have the knowledge and skill to > actually build gnome3 on CentOS-6, desire a new SIG to be created then > that can be done. We would need some assurances that this SIG would be > there for the long haul and they would have at least one person from the > upstream Gnome Project in order to form. If such a group did want to > form, the CentOS-Devel mailing list would be the place for it to happen. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >
On 24.07.2013 12:44, AJH wrote:> Hello, > > just a little question: > > Exists a way to update the Gnome 2.28.1 out of box at Centos 6.4 to a > Gnome 3? > > And if yes...how does this work?There is no practical and reasonable way to do this. Wait for RHEL7 or switch to Fedora if you want Gnome3. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro