Re: [Evolution] evo 2.6 on rhel 4?

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 12:37 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 07:14 -0400, James White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 12:35 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > Am Donnerstag, den 15.06.2006, 14:43 -0400 schrieb Mickey Blue Eyes:
> > > > Could anyone explain why it's virtually impossible to install Evolution-2.6 
> > > > and -2.4 on RHEL 4.3/CentOS-4.3?
Check out garnome http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/

If it works, tell me how
If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces.

> > > because your distro is ancient and gnome development also means "new
> > > dependencies" on many other have-to-be-updated libraries on your system?
> >
> > So far as I can tell, RHEL 4 is a recent release and should support
> > Evolution 2.6.  But hey, I'm a Gentoo guy - what would I know about it?
>
> RHEL4 is a bit over a year old (ignore the subsequent updates - they are
> fixes only, not upgrades), and is based on the same timeframe as Fedora
> 3 (so basically stuff fully released at least 18 months ago).
>
> Its therefore Gnome 2.8, not 2.14
>
> RHEL5 may well have Evolution 2.6.
RHEL5 should most probably be based with Evo 2.8
> Backporting bleeding edge to stable series is frankly a world of pain
> and just a god way of getting the fun and instability of something like
> Fedora, with the pain of doing your own backports, and the costs of an
> Enterprise system (which won't be supported due to the mass of packages
> you have replaced).
>
>       Nigel.

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