Re: [Evolution] apt-get and evolution

[Mark Tearle <mtearle tearle com>]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Robert Lazzurs wrote:

> Is there any chance of an apt-get source being setup for evolution any
> time soon, all the files are there, but it would be nicer if I could use
> apt-get to get them, I know they are not stable, but that is the whole
> point of unstable, you have already realeased binaries, this is not a big
> step, is there any chance.
>
> Thanks in advance - Robert Lazzurs

An earlier message from Peter Teichman (maybe this should be mentioned in
the FAQ?):


> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:42:00 -0400
> To: debian-gtk-gnome lists gnome org, evolution helixcode com,
>    beta helixcode com
> Message-ID: <20000714154200 A7292 lorax>
> From: Peter Teichman <peter helixcode com>
> Subject: [Evolution] evolution packages for Debian
>
> I have built some Debian packages for Evolution and its dependencies,
> and am releasing them in the hopes that someone out there will find
> them useful.
>
> These aren't of nearly the same quality as the Helix GNOME debs. There
> are some known minor packaging issues, but things appear to work
> fine. Keep in mind that all the packages involved are in a prerelease
> state.
>
> In particular, the gconf deb runs a program in its postinstall script
> that requires oaf. This starts oafd, which remains running after the
> install is finished. Feel free to kill this root-owned oafd after the
> install is over. I don't know a good way to handle this problem, since
> root could be running some programs that require oafd to be
> running. That rules out killing it off in the postinst. I'll look into
> things to see what can be done.
>
> These have been built and tested under Woody, though they should work
> on Potato as well. As with the Helix GNOME debs, I consider any
> failure to work on Potato to be a bug. Please file a bug report if you
> see any problems of that sort. ( http://bugs.helixcode.com/ )
>
> These have been built for the i386 architecture - that's the only
> machine I have available at the moment. Source packages are provided,
> though.
>
> The appropriate apt line is:
> deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./
>
> Share and enjoy.
>
> Peter

Yours
Mark
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