First of all that good news I mentioned in my earlier entry about GNOME 2.7. I got a letter this morning informing me that I've been selected for training for ordination within the Church of England. Come September, I'll be starting a full time BA (Hons) course in Ministry at St Joh's College, Nottingham, which should lead to ordination in three years time. I'll be informing my current employers on Monday. Don't know what will happen with usr local bin as yet, but I've a couple of months to figure that out.

Currently rebuilding Evolution 1.4, having rebuilt gal2, gtkhtml2 and libsoup. Also building control-center2. Hoping to get Nautilus, and possibly GStreamer built by the end of the day. Uploading tomorrow may be ambitious, but at least it seems to be working.

Update:
Evolution build completed, but turns out my problem is Ximian bug #54888. Have uninstalled evolution-data-server-devel, and will try again.

Somewhere along the line something's gone screwy. Rebuilt gnome-applets to remove a Conflicts: line in the .spec that APT didn't like. When I tried to install the rebuilt version:

weasel:/usr/src/packages/SPECS # rpm -Uvh
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/gnome-applets-2.6.1-100.SuSE.ulb.2.i586.rpm
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/gnome-applets-devel-2.6.1-100.SuSE.ulb.2.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
control-center2 is needed by (installed) gnome-media-2.4.1.1-40
control-center2 is needed by (installed) nautilus-2.4.2-47
control-center2 is needed by (installed) xscreensaver-gnome-4.16-2.3
control-center2 is needed by (installed) gnome-panel-2.7.1-100.SuSE.ulb.1
control-center2 is needed by (installed) gnome-session-2.7.1-100.SuSE.ulb.1
control-center2 is needed by (installed) control-center2-devel-2.6.1-100.SuSE.ulb.1

Compare with:

weasel:/usr/src/packages/SPECS # rpm -q control-center2
control-center2-2.6.1-100.SuSE.ulb.1

Doing rpm --rebuilddb at the moment, hopefully that will help.

Update 2:
Argh, just realised why, control-center2 "Provides" gswitchit, gnome-applets now Obsoletes it, so it was trying to remove control-center2.

Gonna keep this blog entry updating as I go, dates and times are BST (GMT +0100)

• 9 Jul 20:34 Started building ORBit2 2.10.2
• 20:52 libbonobo 2.6.2
• 21:02 GConf 2.7.1
• 21:15 gnome-mime-data 2.4.1
• 21:25 gnome-vfs 2.7.1
• 10 Jul 07:52 libgnome 2.7.1
• 08:06 libgnomecanvas 2.7.1
• 08:09 libbonoboui 2.6.1
• 08:23 libgnomeprint 2.7.0 (Pango 1.5.0, ATK 1.7.1)
• 08:49 libgnomeprintui 2.7.0 (Just got some good news - info later...)
• 08:52 gnome-keyring 0.3.1
• 08:54 libgnomeui 2.7.1
• 09:11 startup-notification 0.6, gnome-themes 2.7.1
• 09:19 gnome-desktop 2.7.1
• 09:21 libwnck 2.6.1
• 09:25 libsoup 2.1.11
• 09:27 evolution-data-server 0.0.95
• 10:07 gnome-panel 2.7.1
• 10:20 gnome-session 2.7.1
• 10:30 gnome-terminal 2.7.2
• 10:38 gnome-applets 2.6.1 (libxklavier 1.02)
• 11:34 Metacity 2.8.1
• 11:40 Galeon 1.3.16
• 11:55 First login attempt to GNOME 2.7.2
• 11:57 Succesful, but Evolution is broken (having rebuilt it against 2.7 libraries:
  

  evolution: error while loading shared libraries:
  /opt/gnome/lib/evolution/1.4/components/libevolution-addressbook.so:
  undefined symbol: e_book_get_config_database
  

  Seems I need to rebuild all it's deps too, will do so later