Follow-up Gnome2.6 is Gnome2.4?

[Franz Klammer]

Robert Hish wrote:
> This is a followup to my previous post.
> 
> I just tried it again, and again the instructions for installing Gnome 
> 2.6 via packages installs Gnome 2.4 NOT gnome 2.6.
> 
> I did a fresh install of FreeBSD5.2.1
> pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
> configured the supfiles and then cvsup -g -L 2 supsrc then supports
> after getting everything fresh and up to date
> 
> i configured make.conf and then
> 
> make -j4 buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> reboot
> etc etc per directions on freebsd handbook
> 
> everything works perfectly and i now have an up-to-date 5.2.1 install
> 
> then after final reboot i build pkg_install from sysutils/pkg_install
> make install clean
> works perfectly no errors
> 
> set 
> PACKAGESITE="http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/5.2.1-FreeBSD/Latest/"

instead of "set VAR=<value>" try "setenv VAR <value>":

setenv PACKAGESITE "http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/5.2.1-FreeBSD/Latest/"

> 
> pkg_add -r gnome2
> 
> and i get gnome2.4
> not gnome2.6 as the web page says
> 
> ftp ftp.freebsd.org
> anonymous
> roberthish at hotmail.com
> cd pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release/All
> ls gnome2*

from ftp.freebsd.org you get only the packages that was shipped
with 5.2.1 and that was gnome-2.4

/franz

> 
> shows Gnome2-2.4.0 ?
> 
> what am i not getting here?
> 
> "There are two ways to install GNOME 2.6 on FreeBSD. One way is to use  
> packages"
> "To install GNOME 2.6 from packages, use the command:
> # pkg_add -r gnome2
> 
> This will download the latest GNOME 2.6 packages from the FreeBSD FTP 
> site, and proceed to install them on your system."
> 
> This is what freebsd.org/gnome has said since a few days after 2.6 was 
> released, yet never have i been able to install gnome2.6 from packages 
> using ftp.freebsd.org
>