Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:21:06 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Subject: Re: fam Message-ID: <1111260066.12556.11.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <opsnwfsce79aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> 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> <1111259397.12556.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <opsnwfsce79aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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--=-rA5FZupcPdjjyNXnF18v Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 13:15 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:09:57 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke =20 > <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: >=20 > > On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:05 -0800, 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) FA= Q. > >> > 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 i= t > >> 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). > > > > 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. > > > >> > >> 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. > > > >> > >> Picture the above two paragraphs just below the existing GNOME entry i= n > >> the release notes, with appropriate SGML markup. I assumed that the F= AM > >> 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. >=20 > I think, we need to add FAQ link in the x11/gnome2/pkg-message to kill =20 > people's excuse of not know about it. I added the main FreeBSD GNOME site there (this does get printed at the end of a pkg_add). However, if you think the FAQ deserves separate mention, please add it. Joe >=20 > Cheers, > Mezz >=20 > > Joe > > > >> > >> Bruce. >=20 >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-rA5FZupcPdjjyNXnF18v 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) iD8DBQBCPHuib2iPiv4Uz4cRAiW5AJ96UzON7dvChoRN7sBEKzNWf3CtcgCfc0G6 hwF2rJJiJDL6a5pwG93gDoI= =mCYL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rA5FZupcPdjjyNXnF18v--
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