Gimp-help not working after portupgrade

[Mike Clarke]

After upgrading to Gimp 2.6.1 (on 6.4-RC1) I can't access
the Gimp help files.

I have the following gimp* ports installed:
gimp-2.6.1,2        The "meta-port" for The Gimp
gimp-app-2.6.1_1,1  A GNU Image Manipulation Program
gimp-gutenprint-5.1.7_1 GutenPrint Printer Driver
gimp-help-2.4.1     GIMP user's manual

The error message I got was:

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The GIMP user manual is not installed on your computer.
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gimp-help-2.4.1 worked OK with 2.4 but perhaps it's not compatible with 
2.6. (I see from www.gimp.org that work is in progress on updating the 
user manual for GIMP 2.6) so I thought I'd switch over to the online 
help but then I got the following error message:

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Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading:
Operation not supported

Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS?
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I have gio-fam-backend-2.16.5 and gvfs-0.2.5 installed.

This isn't restricted to just the online help, gimp won't load any file 
via http.

I asked about the http problem in comp.graphics.apps.gimp but didn't get 
any response. Google searches haven't unearthed anything about this so 
I was wondering if it might be a problem related to the FreeBSD port 
rather than gimp itself?

-- 
Mike Clarke