portupgrade for gnomemeeting fails

[Stacey Roberts]

Hi Mezz..,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>"
To: To Stacey Roberts
Date: Sun, 08 Feb, 2004 15:47 GMT
Subject: Re: portupgrade for gnomemeeting fails

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:26:11 +0000, Stacey Roberts 
> <stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:
> 
> >Hi Mezz..,
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>"
> >To: To Stacey Roberts
> >Date: Sun, 08 Feb, 2004 15:20 GMT
> >Subject: Re: portupgrade for gnomemeeting fails
> >
> >>On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:15:33 +0000, Stacey Roberts
> >><stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi Mezz,
> >>>   Thanks for this..,
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>"
> >>>To: To Stacey Roberts
> >>>Date: Sun, 08 Feb, 2004 14:52 GMT
> >>>Subject: Re: portupgrade for gnomemeeting fails
> >>>
> >>>>On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 12:13:53 +0000, Stacey Roberts
> >>>><stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hello,
> >>>>>     I am submitting this as per the instructions in the error 
> >>message
> >>>>I
> >>>>>get when portupgrading gnomemeeting-0.98.5_1.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Here is the output from the portupgrade process:
> >>>>># portsclean -C
> >>>>>Cleaning out /usr/ports/*/*/work...
> >>>>>Delete /usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting/work
> >>>>>done.
> >>>>>Demon# portupgrade -f gnomemeeting\*
> >>>>
> >>>><snip>
> >>>>
> >>>>>checking for
> >>>>>/usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting/../../devel/pwlib/work/pwlib/include/ptlib/pprocess.h...
> >>>>>no
> >>>>>configure: error: You need PTLib's header files to build GnomeMeeting
> >>>>>===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> >>>>
> >>>><snip>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Please let me know if there is anymore information I can provide.
> >>>>
> >>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2003-September/002905.html
> >>>>(click on thread link to read more replies)
> >>>
> >>>Hmmm.., I don't understand this.., The end of that sad long story was
> >>>the fact that I had to reinstall Gnome2 in order to perform the
> >>>"upgrade" to Gnome2.4 successfully.
> >>>
> >>>Hard to swallow, this.
> >>
> >>My answer is still same in that thread and you do not need to reinstall
> >>Gnome if one app isn't work or whatever. I would uninstall pwlib, 
> >>openh323
> >>and gnomemeeting then install gnomemeetings.
> >>
> >
> >Err.., none of those ports are even installed on the system:
> >stacey at Demon ~ $ cd /var/db/pkg
> >stacey at Demon /var/db/pkg $ pkg_info | grep -i pwlib*
> >stacey at Demon /var/db/pkg $ pkg_info | grep -i openh323*
> >stacey at Demon /var/db/pkg $
> >
> >So., where does one begin with your suggestion?
> 
> Do'h, I keep forget that they don't install but only will build because 
> gnomemeetings need to build with them. However, I do really have no idea 
> what you did with your system because I never have that problem. My answer 
> is still same in the archives: 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2003-September/002924.html

Sadly.., as it was at that time., I'm oblidged to state again that I "make it a point" *NOT* to tweak anything on the machines, for just the reason as is suggested in your statement above.

Knowing that with OSS there is no guarantee on universal compatibility, I *never* wanted to ever be in the situation where a maintainer has to tell me "sorry, it works for me, so it must be something you've done on your system.., "

I always leave my Gnome2 in its vanilla install. I don't even configure the screensaver, and especially with Gnome, I don't touch sound either. I rebuilt Gnome2 on this box as a direct result of the failed upgrade from Gnome2-2.2 to Gnome2-2.4, with the failure point being the same as is the case now..,

You might wonder about the extremity of my usage here., but its related to my using all systems here at home as template / test installs for the servers / workstations I manage at work. Thankfully I've only got 6 FreeBSD hosts being used for development, and the rest being used for servers - so it wasn't *too* much of a hassle in juggling the Gnome2 rebuilds for those 6 boxes after the issues I had upgrading to Gnome2-2.4 back then.

> 
> Oh wait, do you have ffmpeg install? If you click on next thread above 
> link and you will see what Joe has said about it. Serious, all answers are 
> in that thread.

Again, I don't have that port installed:
stacey at Demon ~ $ cd /var/db/pkg
stacey at Demon /var/db/pkg $ pkg_info | grep -i ffmpeg*
stacey at Demon /var/db/pkg $ ls -la | grep -i ffmpeg*
stacey at Demon /var/db/pkg $

And can't think of any reason why I'd even consider touching it with a barge-pole considering its immpact on upgrading Gnome2..,

*Any* suggestions that you might have, or any wild hunches at this point would really be appreciated.

Regards,

Stacey

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> >Regards,
> >
> >Stacey
> >
> >>Cheers,
> >>Mezz
> >>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>
> >>>Stacey
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Cheers,
> >>>>Mezz
> >>>>
> >>>>>Regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Stacey
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
> 
> 
> -- 
> bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
> 

-- 
Stacey Roberts
B. Sc (HONS) Computer Science

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