fam

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:25:59 -0800, Bruce A. Mah <bmah at freebsd.org> wrote:

> If memory serves me right, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>> > If memory serves me right, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Alas, we used to have a section about this in our (FreeBSD GNOME) FAQ.
>> >>However, since we enabled FAM support by default in gnomevfs2, we
>> >>dropped it.  I think it would be worth adding back in as its own FAQ,
>> >>but I'm not sure if that's the best place to disseminate the
>> >>information.
>> >
>> >
>> > Well, I'm strongly influenced by my ex-RE-ness, but I'd think that the
>> > release notes would be one (but not the only) reasonable place to put
>> > this.  We already have a note for the 2.10 upgrade, and I think that  
>> it
>> > could use a little more explication vis a vis:
>> >
>> > 1.  The gnome_upgrade.sh script no longer upgrades ports that GNOME
>> > depends on (but are not parts of GNOME itself).  Users may need to
>> > manually upgrade certain ports (for example, using portupgrade(1))
>> > before running the upgrade script to ensure that they are compatible
>> > with GNOME 2.10.  Specific examples are devel/libtool15 (1.5.10_1 or
>> > later required) and print/freetype2 (2.1.9 or later required).
>>
>> That is incorrect.
>
> That wasn't very helpful.  What part is incorrect?  I see a lot of

I think, what adamw means is that it's fixed in the lastest version of  
gnome_upgrade.sh. Many users have that kind of problem was 'kind of  
unexpected', because we all only tested with lastest everything of GNOME  
2.8+ports+UPDATING and upgrade to GNOME 2.10 went smooth.

Cheers,
Mezz

> messages on this list where users are saying "Arg!  My upgrade fell
> down!" and the reply is "upgrade freetype" or "upgrade libtool".  I just
> wanted to cut down on the cries for help, before people on this list
> have to deal with the inevitable cries for help after 5.4 is released.
>
> If you guys want to add it to the GNOME FAQ, that's fine, but right now
> there's no place in the documentation that mentions this problem.
>
> (And I know this has nothing to do with FAM.)
>
>> > 2.  GNOME includes support for the File Alteration Monitor (devel/fam)
>> > by default, in order to improve the GNOME desktop's ability to respond
>> > to files being added, deleted, or modified by other programs.  To take
>> > advantage of this functionality, FAM must be enabled in inetd.conf(5).
>> > More information can be found in ports/devel/fam/pkg-message.
>>
>> I have no problem with that message, but it's in no way new news.
>> Nautilus has had fam support since at least 2.0.
>
> OK, forget it then.
>
> Bruce.


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