HEADS UP: GNOME 2.14 being merged into the tree

eoghan freebsd at redry.net
Mon May 1 19:43:33 UTC 2006


michael johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/1/06, *eoghan* <freebsd at redry.net <mailto:freebsd at redry.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
>      > В пн, 01/05/2006 в 12:20 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke пишет:
>      >> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 17:15 +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
>      >>> michael johnson schrieb:
>      >>>
>      >>>>> 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@
>      >>>>
>      >>>> We're working on a fix. Either we will disable mDNSResponder
>     in avahi
>      >>> Yes, please.
>      >>>
>      >>>> or hopefully kde@ will want to use avahi's mDNSResponder.
>      >>> This wouldn't help the people running into the CONFLICTS right
>     now (the
>      >>> dependencies are already registered in people's pkgdbs when
>     they do,
>      >>> changing the kdelibs port won't fix that). We can try to make
>     that work
>      >>> later.
>      >>>
>      >>> Also ... seriously, do you guys even check just what is
>     depending on the
>      >>> things you're setting CONFLICTS with? I really was not
>     expecting to see
>      >>> anybody pull a fam->gamin again so soon.
>      >> We tested this change as we do all GNOME development
>     versions.  In the
>      >> past, GNOME/KDE conflicts were quickly brought to light by our
>     testers.
>      >> It seems that this time around, we did not have anyone trying
>     GNOME 2.14
>      >> with KDE on the same machine.  I was rather shocked myself to learn
>      >> about this and the xpdf/poppler conflict so late.
>      >
>      > Both problems was reported before here:
>      >
>      >                               From:
>      > Vladimir Grebenschikov
>      > <vova at fbsd.ru <mailto:vova at fbsd.ru>>
>      >                             Sender:
>      > vova at fbsd.ru <mailto:vova at fbsd.ru>
>      >                                 To:
>      > Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net <mailto:mezz7 at cox.net>>
>      >                                 Cc:
>      > Tuc at T-B-O-H <ml at t-b-o-h.net <mailto:ml at t-b-o-h.net>>,
>      > freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org>
>      >                            Subject:
>      > Re: Suggested mod for
>      > gnome_upgradeXXX.sh
>      >                               Date:
>      > Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:50:23 +0300
>      >
>      >
>      > В вс, 19/03/2006 в 11:36 -0600, Jeremy Messenger пишет:
>      >> We will be no longer need gnome_upgradeXXX.sh in the future version
>      > of
>      >> GNOME. Bless to the ltverhack that fix libtool bug. Upgrade
>     GNOME 2.12
>      > to
>      >> 2.14 (still in MC) was a lot easier than any previous version, which
>      > it
>      >> can be done with portupgrade now. About four to five steps to do
>     it.
>      >> Here's what I did with GNOME 2.12 to 2.14:
>      >>
>      >>       pkgdb -Ff (need for gst stuff)
>      >>       portupgrade -f -o net/avahi howl-\*
>      >>       portupgrade -a
>      >>       portupgrade -f -o x11/gnome-screensaver xscreensaver-gnome-\*
>      >>
>      >> The steps might be change if there is any better. Like might be best
>      > to
>      >> follow UPDATING before do the portupgrade -a.
>      >
>      > First of all thanks for good work.
>      >
>      > Unfortunately, I've do this upgrade before above suggestion, so I was
>      > forced to find the solution with howl -> avahi by myself.
>      >
>      > Also there is one more conflict of this kind:
>      > evinice requires poppler, but poppler conflicts with already
>     installed
>      > xpdf:
>      > ===>  Installing for poppler-0.5.1
>      >
>      > ===>  poppler-0.5.1 conflicts with installed package(s):
>      >       xpdf-3.01_2
>      >
>      >       They install files into the same place.
>      >       Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
>      > *** Error code 1
>      >
>      > Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/poppler.
>      > *** Error code 1
> 
>     Regarding poppler...
>     Is this a requirement for a successful gnome 2.14 upgrade? Mine is
>     running at the moment, and this did fail...
> 
> 
> if you want to use the full gnome desktop (evince), than yes. But you
> can keep xpdf installed if you'd rather not have evince.
> 
> Michael

ok thanks
So can i make deinstall xpdf after my portupgrade and make install for 
poppler? Should this suffice or will i need to run portupgrade again?
Eoghan


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