Gnome ports puzzlemnet
stan
stanb at panix.com
Wed Apr 7 08:09:10 PDT 2004
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:36:03PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.
>
Got it.
Just looked at that, and I see where to go.
Thanks.
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