Jon Peatfield wrote:
> Just a heads up re possible issue with building the new vnc rpms.
> 
> In RHSA-2009-0261 TUV announces an updated VNC to fix a problem with the 
> vncviewer (which earlier they claimed didn't exist but...)
> 
> I note that in the el 5.3 updates for xorg there is a vnc related 
> statement:
> 
>    RHBA-2009-0162
> 
>    * the source code for the X server is now provided as a separate
>      subpackage. This allows vnc to build from this source rather than an
>      upstream source that has not been optimized for Red Hat Enterprise
>      Linux. Making this source code available separately ensures that vnc
>      on Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes advantage of bug fixes and
>      enhancements specific to the operating system.
> 
>    ...
> 
>    xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.52.el5.src.rpm
> 
> I would guess that part of the delay in TUV getting the new vnc package 
> out was this work on the xorg setup.  In any case it migth turn out that 
> the new xorg package is needed - at least to BUILD the new vnc rpms, and 
> possibly to use them as well.
> 
> Not that I've actually looked at the vnc specfile yet - sine my local 
> mirror of the TUV SRPMS doesn't have the new vnc one in it yet...
> 
>   -- Jon
> 

It built on SL5 without any trouble.
It's still compiling on SL 4.
Troy
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