Gnome Upgrade

Bob Perry rperry4 at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 15 16:02:38 PST 2004


On (11/14/04 01:06), Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Subject: Re: Gnome Upgrade
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> To: Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net>
> Cc: freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:06:31 -0500
> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port 
> 
> 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.
> 

Not exactly what I wanted to hear but I can understand.

Upgrades are still more of a chore than the walk-in-the-park it should be 
for me.  My problem though.

Thanks for the warning.


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