Re: Grip not in 11.4?

On 04/19/2011 12:03 PM, Dave Plater wrote:
> On 04/19/2011 12:12 AM, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
>> I'm in the process of moving from openSUSE 11.3 to 11.4. However, I've
>> noticed that grip does not seem to be available for 11.4. Does anyone
>> know where I may obtain an x86_64 RPM of it?
>>
>> I know that it apparently has not been maintained in some time.
>
> The last change to the package was a patch added around 27 September 2010
> The last update seems to have been 20 March 2006 but has been actively maintaned with patches by openSUSE since then.
>
>> Interestingly, the openSUSE build service status shows that it has
>> successfully been built for 11.4. However, the version of that build,
>> 3.2.0-312.1, is an earlier revision than the version I have installed
>> under 11.3: 3.2.0-314.2. Apparently, that latter version is an update
>> build?
>>
>> If need be, I can attempt to build from source (using the 11.3 sources,
>> since I haven't (yet) been able to locate any 11.4 sources of the latest
>> rev).
>>
>> If grip is not practical to use under 11.4, can anyone recommend a
>> viable replacement? I haven't really kept up with this end of things in
>> a while.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Phil
>>
> grip-3.2.0-312.1 is available for openSUSE 11.4 from :
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_11.4
> Don't know why it was dropped from 11.4 though, there's no indication in the change log but it's most probably no longer maintained upstream.
>
> Dave P
The latest version is 3.3.1 and it looks like it's still maintained so if it doesn't turn out to be a problem to update (which s normally 
the case with packages that haven't been updated for a while) I'll have that version in multimedia:apps by the end of the week.
Dave P
Maintainer multimedia apps and libs.