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Date:      Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:24:23 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        sengupta.amit@gmail.com
Cc:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Gkrellm not building
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:58 AM Amit Sengupta <sengupta.amit@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Awesome. Thanks a lot Adam. Will follow your advice.
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 19:24, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:47 AM Amit Sengupta <sengupta.amit@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot Adam . I do run portsnap fetch update every morning so I
> > guess my ports are up to date. I had no idea gkrellm had become gkrellm2
> > because I have been using  gkrellm for many years and only recently
> decided
> > to update it.  Is there something which I should do to know that a port
> has
> > changed names? I couldnt find anything in UPDATING but as you said the
> > switch happened a long time back it wouldnt make sense to check UPDATING.
> >
> > Something isn't right with portsnap on your machine, because those
> > gkrellm port files shouldn't even be on your system anymore (portsnap
> > should have deleted them). You might try deleting your ports tree and
> > re-extracting the snapshot (portsnap fetch extract).
> >
> > Removed files only get an annotation in /usr/port/MOVED, but that file
> > isn't very end-user-friendly.
> >
> > # Adam
>
>
I will mention that the main difference between gkrellm and gkrellm2 is the
move from gtk to gtk2. That may require installing a port or two, but you
may be ale to remove gtk and, perhaps, a few other old ports. Not much left
that uses gtk.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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