Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:47:06 -0500 From: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome Upgrade Message-ID: <20041114214706.GB661@sphinx.alpha.domain> In-Reply-To: <1100412391.83684.30.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20041113181507.GA43083@sphinx.alpha.domain> <1100412391.83684.30.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On (11/14/04 01:06), Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Subject: Re: Gnome Upgrade > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > To: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> > Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:06:31 -0500 > X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port > > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 13:15 -0500, Bob Perry wrote: > > First, congratulations to the GNOME team on the upgrade. > > > > Just pulled in the upgrade script and it states that you must have FreeBSD > > versions 4.10, 5.3, or 6.0 for the upgrade to work. I run version 4.9 and > > if I understand this correctly, I can expect problems if I attempt to > > upgrade any of my ports that require GNOME at this time. > > 4.9 is EOL, and should be upgraded to at least 4.10 if you want to run > GNOME. It's highly recommended you move to 5.3 to keep up with the > ever-evolving features. Let this be an early warning that GNOME may not > be supported on FreeBSD 4.X for much longer. > Not exactly what I wanted to hear but I can understand. Upgrades are still more of a chore than the walk-in-the-park it should be for me. My problem though. Thanks for the warning. -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0
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