From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 12:41:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A5216A4CE; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakermmtao08.cox.net (lakermmtao08.cox.net [68.230.240.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD8143D58; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.11]) by lakermmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040416194143.IZHI21228.lakermmtao08.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:41:43 -0400 To: Kent Stewart References: <200404161152.04114.kstewart@owt.com> Message-ID: From: Jeremy Messenger Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:42:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200404161152.04114.kstewart@owt.com> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Linux M2 build 518 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading Gnome components using portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:41:47 -0000 On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:52:04 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Friday 16 April 2004 11:39 am, sAndri Kok wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I have what I believe are Gnome components installed on my computer >> (gimp, Gconf, gtk, glib, etc). I'm running portupgrade now and I read >> the message that I should upgrade Gnome using the script provided by >> FreeBSD Gnome. The question is, if I only have parts of Gnome >> installed, while I'm using fluxbox as window manager, do I need to >> run the script? or is portupgrade fine? my portupgrade is currently >> still running and I don't seem to encounter any problem (yet). >> > > I also run that way and from my experience the odds are pretty high that > something will be done out of order. I did a portupgrade -pufr glib to > do the upgrade and had a few problems that I had to manually update. I > understand from other comments that re-running the upgrade script makes > the update go faster than a -rf glib. If you look at ports that you > have installed that depend on glib, the list seems to go forever. I > don't know if a -pufrR glib would have prevented the problems but that > would have used even more computer time to do the update. I think the > AMD 2400+ needed something like 13 hours to do the update the way I did > it. I personal would go for rebuild everything that depend on pkg-config instead glib, because of libxml2, libxslt and etc that don't depend on glib. Cheers, Mezz > Kent -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.