Gnome Upgrade

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 13:15 -0500, Bob Perry wrote:
> First, congratulations to the GNOME team on the upgrade.
> 
> Just pulled in the upgrade script and it states that you must have FreeBSD 
> versions 4.10, 5.3, or 6.0 for the upgrade to work.  I run version 4.9 and 
> if I understand this correctly, I can expect problems if I attempt to 
> upgrade any of my ports that require GNOME at this time.

4.9 is EOL, and should be upgraded to at least 4.10 if you want to run
GNOME.  It's highly recommended you move to 5.3 to keep up with the
ever-evolving features.  Let this be an early warning that GNOME may not
be supported on FreeBSD 4.X for much longer.

> 
> Secondly, does the upgrade require interaction, or can it be run overnight, 
> unattended?

It can be run overnight.

Joe

> 
> Thank you. 
> 
-- 
PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/attachments/20041114/dea07fde/attachment.bin