Please tell me I didn't hose up too bad...

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Tue Mar 15 14:55:08 PST 2005


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:52:43 -0500, "Joe Marcus Clarke"
<marcus at FreeBSD.org> said:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Trey Sizemore wrote:
> | On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:39:13 -0700, "James Earl"
> <jamesd.earl at gmail.com>
> | said:
> |
> |>On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:35:42 -0500, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm>
> |>wrote:
> |>
> |>>On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:30:28 -0700, "James Earl"
> <jamesd.earl at gmail.com>
> |>>said:
> |>>
> |>>>On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:20:24 -0500, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm>
> |>>>wrote:
> |>>>
> |>>>>I reran my gnome-update script after having it fail with
> mozilla-devel
> |>>>>and I *think* I forgot to add the -restart flag to the
> gnome-upgrade.sh
> |>>>>/var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_.st.xxx
> |>>>>
> |>>>>Now it's on the step wehre it's removing everything that depends on
> |>>>>glib-2 and it seems *everything* (gnome, kde...) is getting removed.
> |>>>>What do I do????
> |>>>
> |>>>Give yourself a break and install GNOME 2.10, and KDE from the
> |>>>packages that are available.  :)
> |>>>
> |>>>Only after completing my ~24 hr upgrade did I remember about the
> GNOME
> |>>>Tinderbox!
> |>>
> |>>It now appease to be "rebuilding all GNOME applications.  Does this
> mean
> |>>that I've lost all of KDE?  Will the script rebuild that as well
> (along
> |>>with xfce4, etc.) or am I now going to have to do all this manually?
> |>
> |>Do a quick 'pkg_info | grep kde' and see if it's still there.  I don't
> |>know enough about how the gnome_upgrade script works to tell you off
> |>hand what it did or is doing.
> |
> |
> | No, no.  It's quite gone.  I haven't cried in quite a number of years,
> | but this just might do it.  What is going to be the most efficient way
> | to "get everything back?"  I assume gnome is currently installing (I
> | hope...).  But how about everything else that got removed.  By leaving
> | off the -restart flag by accident this time around, why did all the
> | packages get removed?
> 
> Everything that gnome_upgrade.sh removes, it puts back.  You just need
> to wait for it to finish.  Alternatively, you can abort it, then look
> for packages for everything listed in the gnome_upgrade_lst file that is
> generated by the upgrade.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
I'm in KDE (what's left of it) running the script in a konsole.  How can
I tell it's still running.  I don't have much of a usable UI right now.

Thanks.
-- 
  Trey Sizemore
  trey at fastmail.fm



More information about the freebsd-gnome mailing list