Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:09:57 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Subject: Re: fam Message-ID: <1111259397.12556.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1111255523.97034.24.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> 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>
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--=-GeaykvlV1KGu9WZIHmlQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:05 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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: >=20 > 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). This is not the case. the gnome_upgrade.sh script _should_ have upgraded all ports on the system. There was a problem with old pkgdbs, however, that caused this to break. Adam committed a fix, but it was too late for most. >=20 > 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. This I'm adding as a GNOME FAQ. This is beautifully stated. >=20 > Picture the above two paragraphs just below the existing GNOME entry in > the release notes, with appropriate SGML markup. I assumed that the FAM > change is a new one (between 5.3 and 5.4), right? I think the first is not needed anymore, and I would rather see a link to the FreeBSD GNOME upgrade FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq210.html, and/or our main FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html. I don't think enough people know we have substantial documentation available for GNOME on FreeBSD. Joe >=20 > Bruce. >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-GeaykvlV1KGu9WZIHmlQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCPHkFb2iPiv4Uz4cRAqPCAKCSjmQKQgVHpggvo8Fn0XlfEd1yqACggacL qY5HCycqSsouuzLfkIbsb5M= =zCU0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GeaykvlV1KGu9WZIHmlQ--
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