Upgrading -CURRENT and will downgrade GNOME to 2.6...

Adam Weinberger adamw at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 14 10:37:12 PDT 2004


>> (08.14.2004 @ 1310 PST): Jeremy Messenger said, in 1.0K: <<
> When I am done with the ruby-gtk2/gnome2 update, then do you want me to  
> test with gnome_upgrade.sh for GNOME 2.6 -> 2.7.x? Unless, it's already  
> well tested by adamw and/or whomever. If nobody reply on this part, then I  
> will do the 'rm -rf /usr/local/* /usr/X11R6/* /compat/linux/*  
> /var/db/pkg/*' and do the clean install instead gnome_upgrade.sh, because  
> it is faster than portupgrade when do the big upgrade.
>> end of "Upgrading -CURRENT and will downgrade GNOME to 2.6..." from Jeremy Messenger <<

I run full gnome_upgrade.sh upgrades every 2 or 3 days or so,
alternating between 4.x and 5.x.

Unless there are errors, I run in the following order:
* clean 2.6 install
* clean 2.7 install
* clean 2.7-experimental install
* 2.6 -> 2.7 upgrade run
on 5-CURRENT and then 4-STABLE.

# Adam


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