HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16.1 has been committed

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:52:22 -0500, Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 14 October 2006 22:31, you wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:54:08 -0500, Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
>> > John Hay wrote:
>> >> It looks like ports/UPDATING is mixing sysutils/portmanager and
>> >> portmaster in the 20061014 part that tells how to update gnome. Is
>> >> that on purpose?
>> >
>> > The entry says this:
>> >
>> > 20061014:
>> >    AFFECTS: All GNOME users
>> >    AUTHOR: gnome at FreeBSD.org
>> >
>> >    GNOME has been updated to 2.16 and all GNOME components have
>> > been moved from X11BASE to LOCALBASE, to upgrade your GNOME desktop
>> > and applications you will need either sysutils/portupgrade or
>> > sysutils/portmaster.
>> >
>> >   Portupgrade users:
>> >    pkgdb -Ff
>> >    portupgrade -rf glib-2\* cairo gnome-doc-utils gnome-mime-data \
>> >          gnome-audio startup-notification dbus
>> >
>> >   Portmaster users:
>> >    portmaster -r pkg-config\*
>> >
>> >
>> > The introductory paragraph says "either/or," so it seems pretty
>> > clear to me that if you use portupgrade, do X; if you use
>> > portmaster, do Y. I'm sure however that if you have suggestions for
>> > improving that paragraph, the gnome folks would like to hear them.
>> > :)
>> >
>> > For those that choose to use portmaster to do the upgrade, first of
>> > all, thanks. :) Second, please make sure that you use the latest
>> > version (1.9), and do NOT attempt this with earlier versions. If
>> > you do, it will fail in a spectacular and painful fashion. I worked
>> > closely with mezz to make sure that portmaster would Do The Right
>> > Thing for this upgrade, and found and fixed several problems with
>> > the way -r was handled previously in the process.
>>
>> I have added an important sentence in UPDATING about that need to
>> have least 1.9 version of portmaster to have the upgrade success.
>> Thanks for remind! :-)
>
> You need a little bit more. Cairo won't update because the
> portupgrade -rf  won't build the glitz dependancy of cairo.

Please do not lose the gnome at freebsd.org from the CC. I don't know  
anything about glitz, so I will not able to help you. I am adding  
gnome at freebsd.org back in.

Please send us the build log for one of my team can have the more clues.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Kent
>
>>
>> portmaster rocks!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> > One last thing, you will probably be happier if you add either -d
>> > (to delete all stale distfiles) or -D (to not delete any distfiles)
>> > to the beginning of your command line for portmaster. That way once
>> > you get past the 'make config' stage and actually start building
>> > stuff, you _probably_ won't have to answer any more questions.
>> > Also, given that if this update fails part way through, a backup
>> > package of the old port probably won't help you, you could save
>> > yourself some time by using the -G option as well.
>> >
>> > In the unlikely *cough* event that portmaster chokes a bunny while
>> > doing this upgrade for you, please feel free to send a message to
>> > the list, and cc: me. I do pay attention to those messages, but
>> > given my real world commitments at this time, you might very well
>> > get the right answer faster from someone on the -ports@ list before
>> > I could provide it.
>> >
>> >
>> > hth,
>> >
>> > Doug


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