...or so I've heard[1]. Here we go: Herewith I announce the officially unofficial unstable GIMP for Fedora repository! I've held off making packages of the 2.7.x series for a long time, but thankfully Luya Tshimbalanga has offered his own versions of these on his fedorapeople repository, compensating for my slackness in that regard in the meantime. However, since I whined about testing on what will eventually become official packages (and because I'm a stickler for having signed packages in publicly available repos[2] -- I'm looking at you, spot), I've decided to bite the bullet and wrap up some packages by myself. Here's the gist (in no particular order): - Don't bother if you (or your spouse/kids/dog) are offended by having to look at a caged Wilber dominated by a goat in garters every single time you start the program. The rest of you may discuss the sheer brilliance of this metaphor. - Save early, save often and don't overwrite originals. - The packages are for Fedora 15, 16 and Rawhide (14 is missing dependencies all over the place -- gtk2, glib2, babl, gegl) and are signed with my GnuPG key[2]. Its fingerprint is in my email signature since a few years, I guess that'll have to do. - No patches anymore since everything is upstreamed. Woot! - External and third party plugins and scripts should work with this version. If GIMP warns you about these using deprecated interfaces, report this to the author(s) of the plugin in question. Crashes should be reported upstream to both GIMP and the plugin author(s). - These packages contain configuration which kicks ABRT in the shin so it won't generate reports for GIMP executables. If you run into bugs which are related to packaging, send me an email, otherwise report them to the upstream Bugzilla[3]. No tickets on bugzilla.redhat.com for these, please. - No delta RPMs (yet) as I'm too lazy to download the old versions for three distro versions and two architectures right now. - I'll probably throw in git snapshots when I feel like it. - The packages are called as they stable ones are (no "unstable" or "beta" in their names) and override the official Fedora packages. No way to install both stable and unstable packages at the same time. - Saving only saves to GIMP's native image format XCF. Nowadays you export to formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF. - If you want to use the new single window mode, you need to activate it in the "Windows" menu once. It's not the default. - GIMP will migrate settings from stable releases. If you want to start with a clean slate, move away or remove the ~/.gimp-2.6 folder (or that of any older stable GIMP version) before starting this GIMP version for the first time. Here's how you get this: - Download a release file for this repository (e.g. [4]) and install it. - Update your packages if you have gimp installed already, "yum install gimp gimp-help-browser" otherwise. Here's how you get rid of this and get the stable version back. - "rpm -e fedora-gimp-unstable-release" - "yum downgrade gimp\*" It's probably a good idea to not enable both Luya's and my repository at the same time. To switch between them, disable the repo configuration of the used repo, "yum downgrade gimp\*" to get back to the official versions, then enable the new one and "yum update". As soon as Fedora carries official packages, these will supersede the unstable versions. At that time you should uninstall the fedora-gimp-unstable-release package, or else installing/updating packages may fail when I remove the repository (as I'll probably forget to tell you about it then). Have fun and don't let it bite you. Nils [1]: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-August/156160.html [2]: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/nphilipp/gimp-unstable/RPM-GPG-KEY-nphilipp [3]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GIMP&version=2.7.3 [4]: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/nphilipp/gimp-unstable/fedora-15/x86_64/fedora-gimp-unstable-release-2.7-1.fc15.noarch.rpm -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011
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