Help, GTK and my ports system broke!

[Kent Stewart]

On Monday 17 May 2004 12:22 pm, Doug Poland wrote:
> Kent Stewart said:
> > On Monday 17 May 2004 11:58 am, Doug Poland wrote:
> >> Kent Stewart said:
> >> > On Monday 17 May 2004 11:39 am, Doug Poland wrote:
> >> >> Greetings,
> >> >>
> >> >> I was running a portupgrade -a this morning on my 5.2.1-RELEASE
> >> >> system on a freshly cvsup'd ports tree.  The first hint of
> >> >> trouble was gtk-2.4.1 failed to upgrade from 2.4.0...
> >> >
> >> > You need to visit
> >> > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html
> >> >
> >> > They had an update script that is supposed to take you from 2.4
> >> > to 2.6 and you need to do that upgrade. You also have a lot of
> >> > cpu time usage ahead of you.
> >>
> >> I'm on may way over there but, I'm not running Gnome on this
> >> system.
> >
> > You may not be. I run KDE but you still have pieces such as glib
> > and gtk.
>
> Thanks Kent.  I too have glib and gtk running, or not :(   I'll start
> the script upgrade now.  Thanks for the tip.

You were just a wee bit slow updating. They removed the message about 
the URL about 1 day ago :). Timing can be everything at times. I did a 
-rf glib portupgrade but I think it failed. The script may also fail 
and they tell you to run it again. The 2nd portupgrade worked and that 
is all that matters :).

Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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