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theDreamer
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 Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject: Evolution 2.3.7 ebuild + basic instructions |
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Lately I've been trying out evolution 2.3.x releases (unstable branch).
2.3.6 seems to be the most stable and feature rich (more stable from 2.2 branch for my opinion).
I've created ebuild for my personal use, you're welcome to use it:
check: http://www.dremer.org/evolution/
and inside choose latest version.
Installation is similiar to any 3rd party ebuilds.
If you're unfamiliar, check: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds.
*** Updated to Support Evolution 2.3.7 ***
Enjoy
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pilla
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from DE (not officially supported).
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rel
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I'm interested. I've been using evo unstable for some time now by just bumping existing ebuilds.
Do you customize the ebuilds e-d-s and evo with patches?
btw, 2.3.6 is dangerous when using imap. moving or deleting a folder could trash a lot more.
2.3.6.1 has been released whitch should fix this.
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theDreamer
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| rel wrote: | Hi,
I'm interested. I've been using evo unstable for some time now by just bumping existing ebuilds.
Do you customize the ebuilds e-d-s and evo with patches?
btw, 2.3.6 is dangerous when using imap. moving or deleting a folder could trash a lot more.
2.3.6.1 has been released whitch should fix this.
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All i did is modifying 2.2 ebuilds to support the new configure parameters using use flags:
- dbus flag to enable dbus new email notification (though it still not working).
- exchange flag to enable exchange support (required in order to compile evolution-exchange package).
- disabled mono - it caused me some problems (but i think it was fixed sinse 2.3.5 or something like that).
that's all i think..
before 2.3.6 there were serious configure and make problems that i needed to patch files but hopefully these days are gone 
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rel
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| theDreamer wrote: | | rel wrote: | Hi,
I'm interested. I've been using evo unstable for some time now by just bumping existing ebuilds.
Do you customize the ebuilds e-d-s and evo with patches?
btw, 2.3.6 is dangerous when using imap. moving or deleting a folder could trash a lot more.
2.3.6.1 has been released whitch should fix this.
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All i did is modifying 2.2 ebuilds to support the new configure parameters using use flags:
- dbus flag to enable dbus new email notification (though it still not working).
- exchange flag to enable exchange support (required in order to compile evolution-exchange package).
- disabled mono - it caused me some problems (but i think it was fixed sinse 2.3.5 or something like that).
that's all i think..
before 2.3.6 there were serious configure and make problems that i needed to patch files but hopefully these days are gone |
I see. Guess the dbus signaling is ment for a third-party tool to work with. evolution does not ship with a notification tool, as of yet imo.
I'am having some trouble with latest evo too and am looking for a gtk replacement. Or else use kmail instead.
Issues I have are: copying somthing into clipboard makes all reply to paste this content quoted. Maybe this is becauseI have the beta
of gnome-session, whitch does hold clipboard content (feature). And looking up addresses on a ldap server hangs evo somtimes.
And I is too lazy/busy to submit bugs 
Lets wait and see what 2.4 stable does  |
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anssi
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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I tried to install using this ebuild. But when trying to emerge I get following:
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winter:~# emerge -pv evolution
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.3.6 [1.3.3.1] -debug -doc +ipv6 -kerberos +ldap +mozilla -nntp +ssl 0 kB [1]
[ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-3.7.5 [3.7.2] -debug 0 kB [1]
[ebuild U ] mail-client/evolution-2.3.6 [2.3.3.1] +crypt -dbus -debug -doc +exchange* +gstreamer +ipv6 -kerberos -krb4 +ldap -mono +mozilla -nntp -pda +spell +ssl -static 0 kB [1]
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I am wondering what that +exchnage* means in the last line. I am thinking it should emerge evolution-exchange because I have exchange in my USE flags. But instead there is that extra * sign shown. Do I need to configure this new USE flag somehow? Any help appreciated... |
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allanw
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| The * means it's a new use flag since your last merge. |
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anssi
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:38 am Post subject: |
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| allanw wrote: | | The * means it's a new use flag since your last merge. |
OK. Thanks for the info!
Is there something wrong with this ebuild, since it does not merge evolution-exchange even though I have this USE flag set? Well, I think I will go on and try it by separately merging first evolution-exchange and then evolution. |
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theDreamer
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Meaulnes
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| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| rel wrote: | Hi,
I'm interested. I've been using evo unstable for some time now by just bumping existing ebuilds.
Do you customize the ebuilds e-d-s and evo with patches?
btw, 2.3.6 is dangerous when using imap. moving or deleting a folder could trash a lot more.
2.3.6.1 has been released whitch should fix this.
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Has the imap thing been fixed? I was thinking of giving the unstable evo a whirl, but my primary work mail is imap and I can't risk loosing it all. How stable is the unstable evo? I am looking to use it at work with imap, and ldap lookups. |
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theDreamer
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| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Meaulnes wrote: |
Has the imap thing been fixed? I was thinking of giving the unstable evo a whirl, but my primary work mail is imap and I can't risk loosing it all. How stable is the unstable evo? I am looking to use it at work with imap, and ldap lookups. |
I cant tell you from experience, cause i'm not using imap, but ...
From what i read in the changelogs, 2.3.6.1 fixed imap support and it should be fully working.,.
also, 2.3.7 changelog contains some small fixes.. which looks like if there're small fixes it must be working...
until now, i have only good things to say about 2.3 compared to 2.2 branch.
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Meaulnes
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| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| word. I think I will give it a go. Thanks |
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