From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 22:48:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C84716A4CE; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:48:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C587C43D4C; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:48:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from april.chuckr.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by april.chuckr.org (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2DMoohK074091; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:50:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost)j2DMonds074088; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:50:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) X-Authentication-Warning: april.chuckr.org: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:50:49 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Adam Weinberger In-Reply-To: <42332468.1050904@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <20050313174848.N74062@april.chuckr.org> References: <1110628437.30113.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20050312165444.GA42687@carrick.bishnet.net> <42332468.1050904@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Joe Marcus Clarke cc: Tim Bishop Subject: Re: Presenting GNOME 2.10 for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:48:54 -0000 On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Adam Weinberger wrote: > Tim Bishop wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:53:57AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > >>As always, GNOME users should _not_ use portupgrade alone to upgrade to > >>2.10. Instead, get the gnome_upgrade.sh script from > >>http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh (note: you may have to > >>wait for the website to sync before the script is updated for 2.10. You > >>can get the latest version at > >>http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade29.sh if you don't want > >>to wait). > > > > > > Not overly impressed so far. The upgrade script (the second link above) > > carefully removed a long list of ports, then failed later on building > > openoffice. I'm now left with a system that's nicely crippled. > > > > I can put it back together - but it doesn't seem that "safe". > > Your system isn't crippled, Tim. In /var/tmp, you have a file named > gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXX (the X's are random chars). All you have to do > is fix the openoffice build problem -- or remove the openoffice line > from that file, and do: > > gnome_upgrade.sh -restart /var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXX > > and it will pick up where it left off. This is nice info ... where is this script documented? Other questions pop to mind, like exactly what's happening in all those many, many dependenciy questions, and when you say "delete", are you deleting files, or entries in a list, or what, exactly? That's a pretty intense script, it needs some documentation, I hope I just missed it. > > # Adam > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity, Signa Phi Nothing). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------