Re: Problems building NetworkManager

[Stefan Zechmeister <stefan zechmeister gmx at>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Anthony Winter wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to compile Network Manager with the aim to perhaps 
> > contribute.  I've tried two ways:
> > 1/ downloading the 0.4 source tar and trying to build
> > 2/ checking out directly from cvs and trying to build.
> >
> > I have had no success yet and think it may be due to failed 
> > dependancies. The website says I need: gnome-common, dbus, hal, and 
> > wireless-tools
>
>
> Unfortunately, 0.4/HEAD is for dbus >= 0.3, while FC3 includes dbus-0.23.  For 
> the moment, you'll want the STABLE_0_3 branch.
>
> cvs -z3 co -rSTABLE_0_3 NetworkManager
>
> I should really put up better instructions and build requirements, along with 
> regular tarball drops.  My bad.
>
> Dan

if i want the head revision on fc3 - what would i have to recompile?
do you know what other packages depend on the older dbus? are there 
patches for these packages to use the newer dbus?

or, are there some updates planned for this on fc3?

bye
stefan