Re: [orca-list] upgrading orca in oracle enterprise linux

[Janina Sajka <janina a11y org>]

Agree with "should." But for various reasons, including human error
specifying things like "requires" statements, we've certainly seen
highly inappropriate dependencies being pulled in. Most recently we've
seen this with development builds of xulrunner and firefox 3 from
development.

Janina

Willem van der Walt writes:
> I think it would mostly upgrade stuff and should at the end of the day not 
> install a lot of extra stuff.
> The oracle servers these days normally have X on them anyway.
> As stated before, my Redhat and Oracle knowledge is a bit dated, but I 
> don't think it has changed that mutch in the meanwhile.
> Regards, Willem
>
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > This is certainly woprth looking into. It may be that yum will want to
> > install far too many packages. But, you should try enabling the
> > development repository for Fedora and see. Do that and issue:
> >
> > yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=development upgrade orca
> >
> > and see how much yum needs to pull in. If you're looking at a handful of
> > packages, you're good to go.
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > Willem van der Walt writes:
> > > Hi,
> > > I would suggest that you get the stuff from Fedora, likely the latest 
> > > version.
> > > There should be a rpm for atspi and all the needed dependancies.  There 
> > > should also be an rpm for orca itsellf.
> > > I am a bit out-dated with the Redhat stuff, but the Rel versions is fed by 
> > > the tested Fedora stuff.
> > > Regards, Willem
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Donald Raikes wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry if this is a duplicate of earlier questions, but I haven't been able to locate any info on this.
> > > >
> > > > I have been trying to find any notes on how to upgrade orca for oracle enterprise linux.
> > > >
> > > > OEL5 is based on rhel5, but with some oracle specific tweaks.
> > > > The version of orca installed by default is orca-1.0.0-el5.
> > > >
> > > > A couple of weeks ago I tried to compile orca 2.21 and had issues with pyatspi which I could never 
> > > > get resolved.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a specific list of packages I absolutely need to compile and which order they should be 
> > > > compiled in?
> > > >
> > > >
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