I have been running Mate on Centos 7 for some time but it does not work very well on my HiDPI laptop screen. Today I found that I am running version 1.16 of Mate whereas the current version is 1.22. Undoubtedly many of the issues have been fixed since 1.16 was released in 2016... However, EPEL only provides 1.16 - a release from 2016 - and nothing later. What is the recommended way to upgrade to 1.22?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 07:27:46AM -0400, H wrote:> What is the recommended way to upgrade to 1.22?I see you've already done the appropriate thing, filed a ticket[1] against the EPEL package in Bugzilla. Not much else you can do here. It's not part of CentOS, and is up to the EPEL maintainers to upgrade. 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1729951 -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 08:21:10AM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 07:27:46AM -0400, H wrote: > > What is the recommended way to upgrade to 1.22? > > I see you've already done the appropriate thing, filed a ticket[1] > against the EPEL package in Bugzilla. > > Not much else you can do here. It's not part of CentOS, and is up to > the EPEL maintainers to upgrade. > > 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1729951Actually, looking at the other tickets for MATE on EPEL, it looks like the maintainer doesn't want to upgrade for a variety of reasons: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436260 Probably worth looking into that ticket. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
H wrote:> > I have been running Mate on Centos 7 for some time but it does not > work very well on my HiDPI laptop screen. Today I found that I am > running version 1.16 of Mate whereas the current version is 1.22. > Undoubtedly many of the issues have been fixed since 1.16 was > released in 2016...It depends what you mean by 'does not work very well' ... Without knowing what the problem is, it would be hard to say if a newer version may fix whatever the issue is> However, EPEL only provides 1.16 - a release from 2016 - and nothing > later.As said elsewhere in this thread, there isn't currently an EPEL maintainer for Mate, so you will have to look elsewhere I did come across https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/raveit65/Mate-GTK3/ a short while ago when I was looking for a possible 'update path' - but never got round to trying it out ... I guess that if unless 'someone' takes on the maintainer role for Mate at EPEL, then there will be no upgrade path James Pearson
On July 15, 2019 8:21:10 AM EDT, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:>On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 07:27:46AM -0400, H wrote: >> What is the recommended way to upgrade to 1.22? > >I see you've already done the appropriate thing, filed a ticket[1] >against the EPEL package in Bugzilla. > >Not much else you can do here. It's not part of CentOS, and is up to >the EPEL maintainers to upgrade. > >1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1729951 > >-- >Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosCan I really be the only user of Mate on Centos 7??
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 12:37:56PM +0000, James Pearson wrote: ...> > As said elsewhere in this thread, there isn't currently an EPEL > maintainer for Mate, so you will have to look elsewhere >...> > I guess that if unless 'someone' takes on the maintainer role for > Mate at EPEL, then there will be no upgrade path > > James PearsonMight the Fedora/Mate maintainer be approached for a recommendation of a CentOS/Mate maintainer? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jon at jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)