gnome port breakage

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:06:53 -0500 (EST), Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org>  
wrote:

> Well, god konws I've made mistakes before .... tell me, is it only my
> mistake that the entire gnome2 port has been broken for MONTHS now,
> because of a bad link in the misc/hicolor_icon_theme port?

It's more like your side problem. gnome2 has been buildable for the  
months. Do the 'rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*' and redo your gnome2 stuff,  
be sure to have your ports tree up to date..

Cheers,
Mezz

> If anyone has a copy of that file, posting that address would be a fine
> thing.  My machines aren't as reliable as I think an ftp server should be
> (I experiment a bit too much for that, usually) but if I must, I would
> host that file, if it's the only way to get the gnome2 port working  
> again.
>
> First thing, though, is for you folks to take a look at your distfiles
> directory, and see if you have that hicolor-icon-theme file, and post it.
> We can't go to the web site that had it, I tried complaining that
> direction months ago, no luck.
>
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>
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> looking up
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> Signa Phi Nothing).
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