Results of upgrading Gnome 2.4 to 2.6

[Bob McDonald]

I read the upgrade FAQ and followed the instructions.  I encountered
some problems, but resolved them and am now running Gnome 2.6 on two
FreeBSD machines.

I encountered two types of problems.  One involved an obsolete file in
the ports tree that apparently was not removed by the cvsup upgrade
process (it was moved to the Attic subdirectory).  The other involved
ports that depend on glib2* and have other dependencies that needed to
be upgraded but wouldn't be upgraded because the upward-recursion
specified in step four doesn't include downward-dependencies of
dependents of glib2*.  This included sdl12 dependent on a newer version
of nas, and gstreamer-plugins dependent on a newer version of
libmusicbrainz.

If you are interested, I have a more detailed description of my upgrade
process at http://www.dancingkayak.com/other/freebsd/upgrade.html near
the bottom of the page, at the section entitled "Upgrading Gnome from
3.4 to 3.6".

-- 
Bob McDonald