Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:40:34 +0100 From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: TooMany Secrets <toomany@toomany.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome 2.24 problems? Message-ID: <49468882.7090208@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <e8b5dfd50812150821i3d34e88al706a11479590a313@mail.gmail.com> References: <e8b5dfd50812150108v14e48016x9e9ff543b3a9c6c0@mail.gmail.com> <49466FE6.4000800@pukruppa.net> <e8b5dfd50812150821i3d34e88al706a11479590a313@mail.gmail.com>
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TooMany Secrets schrieb: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa > <ulrich@pukruppa.net> wrote: >>> Excuse me if this mail could cause some disturb to your job, but I >>> would like to know why the version 2.24 of Gnome is taking so long to >>> arrive in FreeBSD. Is there perhaps some kind of serious problem? >> No, there isn't. >> Gnome-2.24 is available for FreeBSD and works quite nicely, too. See >> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html >> It only hasn't been merged into the ports tree yet, since everybody is >> waiting for the 7.1 RELEASE. > > Thank you Peter, is a great news. > One thing that isn't in the faq: as long as the freebsd ports tree is in a freeze you have to 1) update your ports tree 2) fetch stable-ports from marcuscom by # ./marcusmerge -b ports-stable 3) fetch gnome-2.24 by # ./marcusmerge 4) # portupgrade -a When freeze is over you can leave out step 2) Greetings, Uli.
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