ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree

[Edwin L. Culp]

Quoting Sam Lawrance <boris at brooknet.com.au>:

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> On 06/11/2005, at 10:27 PM, Edwin L. Culp wrote:
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>> Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>:
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>>
>>> Now that the freeze in preparation for FreeBSD 6.0 is over (an  excellent
>>> release to be sure), it is my great pleasure (on behalf of the  FreeBSD
>>> GNOME Team) to announce the general availability of GNOME 2.12 for
>>> FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> The official release notes for GNOME 2.12 can be found at
>>> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/.  FreeBSD-specific
>>> documentation can be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/.  The
>>> documentation has been updated, but it will be a little while  before the
>>> website rebuilds.
>>>
>>> Upgrading from GNOME 2.10 to 2.12 is tricky.  You should NOT use
>>> portupgrade by itself to do this upgrade.  Instead, download the
>>> gnome_upgrade script from
>>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh.  This  script is
>>> a wrapper for portupgrade that contains additional logic to steer  clear
>>> of some potential pitfalls with the upgrade.
>>>
>>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It is always nice to know what you should have done;)
>>
>> A little late, I'm afraid, but when using the script is being used  
>> and the upgrade fails because of a power outage after the ports  
>> have been uninstalled and not rebuilt, what is the correct  
>> proceedure to follow?
>>
>> I reiniciated the update by reexecuting gnome_upgrade212.sh -f and  
>> it seems as though I'm going to loose some ports that were deleted  
>> during the first execution.  When I realized that was a posiblity,  
>> I checked the -h option and saw -restart <list filename> that I  
>> should add as an argument and don't know where <list filename>  
>> might be or if I should have created it before iniciating the  
>> upgrade process.
>>
>>
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> Something like this:
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> sh gnome_upgrade212.sh -restart /var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXXX
>
Thanks, Sam.  I found both the old and the new lists.  As many times as 
I listed /var/tmp I didn't see it for all the other temp files there.

I really appreciate it.  ed