ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree

[Sam Lawrance]

On 06/11/2005, at 10:27 PM, Edwin L. Culp wrote:


> Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>:
>
>
>
>> Now that the freeze in preparation for FreeBSD 6.0 is over (an  
>> excellent
>> release to be sure), it is my great pleasure (on behalf of the  
>> FreeBSD
>> GNOME Team) to announce the general availability of GNOME 2.12 for
>> FreeBSD.
>>
>> The official release notes for GNOME 2.12 can be found at
>> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/.  FreeBSD-specific
>> documentation can be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/.  The
>> documentation has been updated, but it will be a little while  
>> before the
>> website rebuilds.
>>
>> Upgrading from GNOME 2.10 to 2.12 is tricky.  You should NOT use
>> portupgrade by itself to do this upgrade.  Instead, download the
>> gnome_upgrade script from
>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh.  This  
>> script is
>> a wrapper for portupgrade that contains additional logic to steer  
>> clear
>> of some potential pitfalls with the upgrade.
>>
>>
> Hello,
>
> It is always nice to know what you should have done;)
>
> A little late, I'm afraid, but when using the script is being used  
> and the upgrade fails because of a power outage after the ports  
> have been uninstalled and not rebuilt, what is the correct  
> proceedure to follow?
>
> I reiniciated the update by reexecuting gnome_upgrade212.sh -f and  
> it seems as though I'm going to loose some ports that were deleted  
> during the first execution.  When I realized that was a posiblity,  
> I checked the -h option and saw -restart <list filename> that I  
> should add as an argument and don't know where <list filename>  
> might be or if I should have created it before iniciating the  
> upgrade process.
>
>

Something like this:

sh gnome_upgrade212.sh -restart /var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXXX