HEADS UP 2.5 TESTERS: New FreeBSD GNOME Devel FAQ

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (12.29.2003 @ 1321 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 1.6K: <<
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 13:14, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:57:15 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Adam and I have cranked out an FAQ on tracking the GNOME Development
> > > branches.  Here we're including common questions and known issues.  If
> > > you're testing 2.5, you should definitely check it out.  If you have
> > > items to add to the known issues section, please let us know.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html
> > 
> > Looks good! I think, add FAQ of upgrade from 2.4.x to 2.5.x and/or new 
> > update of glib, gtk and pango 2.5.x is good idea. I usually do the 
> > 'portupgrade -rf glib-2\*' and it works very well in my case so far. How 
> > about someone has the different way?
> 
> I plan on writing a script for the 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrade.  There are some
> gotchas that "portupgrade -rf glib-2\*" doesn't handle (e.g. libxml2,
> scrollkeeper, etc., plus updating gnomevfs2 again after updating
> libgnome).
> 
> Joe
>> end of "Re: HEADS UP 2.5 TESTERS: New FreeBSD GNOME Devel FAQ" from Joe Marcus Clarke <<

In the jail you gave me, I've done some successful updates with
portupgrade -u -rf pkgconfig\*

# Adam


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