Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:01:06 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Poor information in ports UPDATING file Message-ID: <41FA1B72.1090605@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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Hi,
Not sure which list I should email this to...so I apologise for the
noise if this is the wrong one.
There is a recent upgrade in the ports for the excellent Xfce4 port to
4.2. There is also a note in the UPDATING file as how to do this.
"20050126:
AFFECTS: users of x11-wm/xfce4
AUTHOR: oliver@FreeBSD.org
If you use Xorg 6.8.1: Make shure there is an /tmp/.ICE-unix with
propper rights. For further informations about that, please refer to
20041229 Please update all your plugins as well when you update from
4.0.6 to 4.2. They all need recompiling to link against the new xfce
libraries"
Maybe I am just too used to the excellent amount of detail in the
UPDATING file usually but this doesn't even offer advice on how to
update your plugins. Every UPDATING file entry I have found useful in
the past has always had a command you could use to carry out this update
plus whether you should update your port first then update the dependencies.
For example:
"20041231:
AFFECTS: users of the linux compatibility environment
AUTHOR: netchild@FreeBSD.org
The default linux_base was changed from v7 to v8. You need to update from
v7 to v8 and rebuild every linux port. To update run:
portupgrade -rf -o emulators/linux_base-8 emulators/linux_base
In case you already use linux_base-8 you have to run:
portupgrade -rf emulators/linux_base-8
"
It would be nice if this could be ammended to show the full details of
what is required to update. I take it you upgrade the Xfce4 port and
then run an upgrade on the plugins, or will just running portupgrade on
everything do the trick?
Thanks
Chris
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