Presenting GNOME 2.10 for FreeBSD

[Tim Bishop]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:18:32PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Tim Bishop wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:53:57AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> >>As always, GNOME users should _not_ use portupgrade alone to upgrade to
> >>2.10.  Instead, get the gnome_upgrade.sh script from
> >>http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh (note: you may have to
> >>wait for the website to sync before the script is updated for 2.10.  You
> >>can get the latest version at
> >>http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade29.sh if you don't want
> >>to wait).
> >
> >
> >Not overly impressed so far. The upgrade script (the second link above)
> >carefully removed a long list of ports, then failed later on building
> >openoffice. I'm now left with a system that's nicely crippled.
> >
> >I can put it back together - but it doesn't seem that "safe".
> 
> Your system isn't crippled, Tim. In /var/tmp, you have a file named 
> gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXX (the X's are random chars). All you have to do 
> is fix the openoffice build problem -- or remove the openoffice line 
> from that file, and do:
> 
> gnome_upgrade.sh -restart /var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXX
> 
> and it will pick up where it left off.

Thanks. It depends on your definition of crippled - I can't use it that
well as it stands. I'll give what you suggest a go :-)

Cheers,
Tim.

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