HEADS UP: GNOME 2.14 being merged into the tree

[Andy Fawcett]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 19:41, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 08:14:28 -0500, Andy Fawcett <andy at athame.co.uk> 
wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:21, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> At this late stage of the 5.5/6.1 release cycle, it was deemed
> >> that none of the packages were going to be rebuilt, so we have
> >> been given permission to merge GNOME 2.14 into the ports tree at
> >> this time.
> >>
> >> The first step will be a merge of GStreamer 0.10.  When that is
> >> complete, the tree will be locked for the GNOME 2.14 merge.  The
> >> good news is that this latest update no longer comes with the
> >> shared library change for GLib, GTK+, or any other low-level GNOME
> >> component, so upgrading will be much easier.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some problems:
> >
> > 1. "portupgrade -a" updates gstreamer to 0.10, but not all the
> > plugins seem to have 0.10 versions (gstreamer-plugins-artsd for
> > one). Did this deserve a note in UPDATING?
>
> Did you run 'pkgdb -Ff'?

I did, yes.

> It should move from gst-plugins-artsd to gst-plugins-artsd80 for you,
> and the pkgdb should be show you a message of "Not part of gstreamer
> 0.10 yet" (from ports/MOVED). 
> Therefore, I don't think it needs to be add in the UPDATING.

I have another box to upgrade later, I'll double-check the effects of 
the UPDATING notes there.

> > 2. gstreamer-plugins-artsd80 has faulty patches, and fails.
>
> Fixed, thanks for report! Missed to remove a patch when the merge
> went in.

cool :)

> > 3. howl has been deprecated to avahi, which conflicts with both
> > howl and mDNSresponder. This means portupgrade -a now fails for me
> > because I have mDNSresponder installed (for KDE I think) and also
> > howl from an earlier gnome. Seems that howl and mDNSresponder never
> > had CONFLICTS set, if I'm reading the Makefiles correctly. This
> > CONFLICTS on mDNSresponder now causes upgrade to fail. Is avahi
> > compatible with mDNSresponder, and if so does this mean we need yet
> > another switch same as we had for gamin/fam earlier?
>
> I don't know much about avahi, so I will let someone to answer it.

ahze@ seems to have fixed the note in UPDATING for it, although I'm not 
sure it's enough. At least x11/kdelibs wants mDNSResponder, and if 
avahi is already installed the dependencies will be recorded 
incorrectly. I've already informed kde@

A.
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