Gnome ports puzzlemnet

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Apr 6 14:37:15 PDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 15:41, stan wrote:
> I cvsup'd the ports tree on one of my machines today, and was trying to
> build a Gnome related port. I recived a warning message pointing to:
> 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html
> 
> And saying that failure to follow the instructions there would result in
> brekage of my Gnome apps.
> 
> What puizzles me, si that this page sesm to be about updating to the
> development version of Gnome, I want to stay with the stable version. The
> machine is at 4.9 STABLE.
> 
> What don't I understand here?

You should always read /usr/ports/UPDATING before doing any operation on
your installed ports.

Joe

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