From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 18:08:02 2005 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 88FF016A4CE; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:08:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from connectmail.carleton.ca (connectmail.carleton.ca [134.117.2.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4090243D48; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:08:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.1.141] ([134.117.145.25]) by connectmail.carleton.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTPSA id <0IDM0098P2DD42@connectmail.carleton.ca>; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:08:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:08:30 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger In-reply-to: <1111255523.97034.24.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" Message-id: <423C6A9E.9000702@FreeBSD.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) References: <20050319030449.GG4271@freebsdmall.com> <1111210527.41721.40.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1111215080.97034.9.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <1111215496.41721.58.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1111255523.97034.24.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> cc: gnome@freebsd.org cc: Murray Stokely Subject: Re: fam 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: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:08:02 -0000 Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > >>Alas, we used to have a section about this in our (FreeBSD GNOME) FAQ. >>However, since we enabled FAM support by default in gnomevfs2, we >>dropped it. I think it would be worth adding back in as its own FAQ, >>but I'm not sure if that's the best place to disseminate the >>information. > > > Well, I'm strongly influenced by my ex-RE-ness, but I'd think that the > release notes would be one (but not the only) reasonable place to put > this. We already have a note for the 2.10 upgrade, and I think that it > could use a little more explication vis a vis: > > 1. The gnome_upgrade.sh script no longer upgrades ports that GNOME > depends on (but are not parts of GNOME itself). Users may need to > manually upgrade certain ports (for example, using portupgrade(1)) > before running the upgrade script to ensure that they are compatible > with GNOME 2.10. Specific examples are devel/libtool15 (1.5.10_1 or > later required) and print/freetype2 (2.1.9 or later required). That is incorrect. > 2. GNOME includes support for the File Alteration Monitor (devel/fam) > by default, in order to improve the GNOME desktop's ability to respond > to files being added, deleted, or modified by other programs. To take > advantage of this functionality, FAM must be enabled in inetd.conf(5). > More information can be found in ports/devel/fam/pkg-message. I have no problem with that message, but it's in no way new news. Nautilus has had fam support since at least 2.0. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx