From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 06:42:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8967A16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 06:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp07.web.de [217.72.192.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C9943D3F for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 06:42:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michel.onoff@web.de) Received: from 194-29-0-214.business.cablecom.ch ([194.29.0.214] helo=web.de) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (WEB.DE 4.101 #91) id 1BGeTY-0000te-00 for freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:42:49 +0200 Message-ID: <4087CBD8.4060902@web.de> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:42:48 +0200 From: Michel Onoff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: michel.onoff@web.de Subject: Install GNOME 2.6 from packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:42:50 -0000 Hello, the instructions on http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html indicate that it should be possible to install GNOME 2.6 by simply issuing: # pkg_add -r gnome2 This doesn't work, on FreeBSD 5.2.1 at least, for a couple of reasons: * the "Latest" directories on the distribution sites still reference the older GNOME 2.4.0 release * pkg_add -r doesn't seem to recognize the .tgz extension and involkes bzip2 instead of gzip. Note that without the -r flag it correctly handles .tgz packages. Even the sysinstall, when configured to retrieve from an ftp medium, still gets the older GNOME 2.4.0 release. Of course, I could install the packages by downloading them via ftp and invoking pkg_add on a local copy. However, in the interest of a more general user community, it would be better to: * update the "Latest" directories on the ftp distribution sites * correct the behavior of pkg_add -r to correctly handle remote .tgz packages As an alternative: * correct the above web page with a workaround for a smooth installation Thank you for your attention and have a nice time