[Dillo-dev] RPMs for Conectiva 8

[Kelson Vibber]

I finally figured out what was preventing Dillo from building on my 
User-Mode Linux installation of Conectiva 8, so RPMs are now available for 
both the plain 0.7.3 release and 0.7.3 with tabs+frames patch version 
10.  Unfortunately, I have not been able to get the virtual network working 
on this instance, so I cannot route X to my actual desktop to test it.

If anyone on this list has a copy of Conectiva 8, I'd appreciate it if you 
would try both RPMs and verify that the packaged version of Dillo works 
correctly (or at least as correctly as it does when you build it yourself) 
and that an icon appears in the KDE/Gnome menus.

http://www.hyperborea.org/software/dillo/

On a related note, before I figured out what was missing from my UML 
installation of Conectiva 8, I decided to try installing an actual copy on 
spare partition space - and watched it wipe out my primary root partition, 
my home partition, and my download/media partition.  After a long night I 
was able to recover both data partitions, but I had to reinstall my primary 
OS.  (Not a big deal, since I had my configuration files and my critical 
data backed up - and I got the rest of my data back.)

As a result, I have decided not to install any more distributions directly 
on that system, so unless/until I can set up a spare system solely for 
trying things out, anything else I build RPMs for will run under User-Mode 
Linux (At this point, 5 of the 10 distributions I build RPMs for are 
running under UML).  If there's a pre-built filesystem available, or if 
it's supported directly by UMLBuilder, it should be easy (assuming I can 
get the install files).  However, for Conectiva 9 or the upcoming Mandrake 
9.2 and SuSE 9, I will need to experiment a bit with either building 
filesystems myself or creating a profile for use with UMLBuilder.  (And any 
SuSE distribution is complicated by the fact that they only provide 
FTP-based installation unless you buy the boxed set.)

The one exception is Fedora Core 1.  My current primary OS is Red Hat 9, 
and I will probably upgrade to Fedora  when it's released, assuming they 
don't rip out anything major.  (I was planning to install the latest beta 
on a spare partition, but I'm a bit reluctant to do that now.)


Kelson Vibber
www.hyperborea.org