From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 10:56:40 2005 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 9B31016A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:56:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB52243D1F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:56:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j0SAuTXx022719 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:56:29 GMT Message-ID: <41FA1B72.1090605@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:01:06 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050113) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 6) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk Subject: Poor information in ports UPDATING file 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, 28 Jan 2005 10:56:40 -0000 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