Which one of these two is the correct version?

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 17:31:08 UTC 2009


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, barbara <barbara.xxx1975 at libero.it> wrote:

> > Hello FreeBSD Gnome users,
> >
> > I have been a KDE user because gnome installation/upgrade presents such a
> > pain to me most of the time. Today I decided to upgrade gnome from 2.24
> -->
> > 2.26 but decided to visit the gnome pages first to see what is said. This
> is
> > after looking at /usr/ports/UPDATING and not seeing much to do with this
> > particular upgrade.
> >
> > Now, there are two pages, and both of them seem "upto date", but they
> have
> > conflicting information:
> >
> > 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2 - says that *NOTE: Do
> notrun
> > portupgrade(1) to upgrade to GNOME 2.26!**
> >    *and goes on to say one should use the gnome-upgrade.sh script, which
> > seems to NOT exist in the links.
> > 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2 - says you should
> use
> > the following steps:
> >     (a) pkgdb -Ff
> >         (Remove gnome-volume-manager.)
> >     (b) portupgrade -aOW
> >     (c) portupgrade -f gnome-media gnome-settings-daemon
> > gnome-control-center
> >
> > So I am just wondering which one is the correct version, since both are
> > talking about the upgrade to 2.26.
> >
> >
>
>
> > 1.http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq212.html#q2
> > 2. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q2
>
> Can you see the number between "faq" and ".html"? ;)


Barbara,

Does that number, whether I see it or not, matter at all?
Both cases are talking about *upgrade to 2.26*, unless I also got blind to
the issue that mattered to me.


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