Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 21:50:31 -0500 From: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> To: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree Message-ID: <20051106025030.GB8339@chameleon> In-Reply-To: <20051105100250.GS739@crom.vickiandstacey.com> References: <1131176568.3960.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051105100250.GS739@crom.vickiandstacey.com>
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--2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:02AM, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello, >=20 > On Sat, 05 Nov 2005, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. If you're used to > > gnome_upgrade from previous releases, a lot has changed in this release. > > You should run gnome_upgrade.sh (or gnome_upgrade212.sh) with the -h > > flag to get the new usage. >=20 > In the FAQ "GNOME 2.12 Upgrading FAQ" located at http://www.freebsd.org/g= nome/docs/faq212.html, step 3 (Run the script) does not mention the usage o= f the "-h" switch to gnome_upgrade.sh. Is that an omission, or now new info= rmation? >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Stacey >=20 I think he's just saying that if you've used one of the Gnome upgrade scripts in the past, using -h (help) will show you what is different with the script this time around. It's not required to run the script itself. --=20 Cheers, Trey ---- =20 Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. -- Henrik Tikkanen =20 Linux chameleon 2.6.13-15-default i686 GNU/Linux 9:48pm up 3 days 2:46, 4 users, load average: 0.26, 0.18, 0.10 --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDbW9291lYhtI7cb0RAmmCAKDZKD7Ce19jevoM9od5CQWIOb6sIwCffnso 3XeAwPyB0tzJ4vCygPZ1bDs= =8BQ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r--
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