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To: Bob McDonald <freebsd@dancingkayak.com>
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Subject: Re: Results of upgrading Gnome 2.4 to 2.6
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:47:32 -0700, Bob McDonald 
<freebsd@dancingkayak.com> wrote:

> I read the upgrade FAQ and followed the instructions.  I encountered
> some problems, but resolved them and am now running Gnome 2.6 on two
> FreeBSD machines.
>
> I encountered two types of problems.  One involved an obsolete file in
> the ports tree that apparently was not removed by the cvsup upgrade
> process (it was moved to the Attic subdirectory).  The other involved
> ports that depend on glib2* and have other dependencies that needed to
> be upgraded but wouldn't be upgraded because the upward-recursion
> specified in step four doesn't include downward-dependencies of
> dependents of glib2*.  This included sdl12 dependent on a newer version
> of nas, and gstreamer-plugins dependent on a newer version of
> libmusicbrainz.
>
> If you are interested, I have a more detailed description of my upgrade
> process at http://www.dancingkayak.com/other/freebsd/upgrade.html near
> the bottom of the page, at the section entitled "Upgrading Gnome from
> 3.4 to 3.6".

3.4 to 3.6? Are we in future? :-)

Cheers,
Mezz


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