Re: [Evolution] a few upgrade questions please . . . .

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 09:09 +1000, Wasserland wrote: 
> I am running 14.04LTS 64bit. Evolution 3.10.4 currently installed from
> Software Centre.
> 1. Is version 3.12.2 substantially better than 3.10.4?  Any
>    reason why not to upgrade?

There is no reason NOT to upgrade.

But the big stability leaps, for me, happened in 3.8 & 3.10.  After that
improvements have been gravy.

>  2. I have downloaded: evolution_3.12.2-1+b1_amd64.deb but not
>     installed it yet.
>  a)Is this the correct file?
>  b) What is the "+B1"?

No clue, this is up to your distribution.  If it is the wrong package
your package manager should tell you.  Don't force things, use the
tools.  If you force things then ***YOU*** broke it, it does not mean
the system/software is broken - ***YOU*** broke it, ***YOU***, period. 
                
> 3.  How to get rid of the pesky(!) "unlock keys" password demand
>     when Evo first fires up?

This is NOT an Evolution issue.  Your installation is broken [probably
by something you did], or your software stack is broken [your
distribution broke it].  It works for me, I do not see this issue.  It
has almost always worked me - except when I broke it my screwing around.

It works, reliably, on every openSUSE install I have.

Evolution uses the keyring subsystem to deal with passwords.  Break that
and it propagates up into Evolution.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA