Gnome Upgrade on FreeBSD 5.3

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:41:49 -0400, Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I've just loaded FreeBSD 5.3 onto a multiple OS box and
> intend to load the GNOME desktop once I decided what
> components I need (assuming that is possible).
>
> I CVSup'd my system and found that over 75% of the
> packages I installed needed upgrade including;
> gnome-icon-theme-1.2.3, gnomehier-1.0_19,
> gnomekeyring-02.1_1, gnomemimedata-2.4.1_2, and
> gnomevfs2-2.6.2_1.  Can I use portupgrade to upgrade
> these ports or is a special script necessary as was
> required with the recent GNOME desktop upgrades?

You must read in the /usr/ports/UPDATING and use the special script (check  
in UPDATING).

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks,
> Bob Perry


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