Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:43:58 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux gnome libraries etc. Message-ID: <20080214194358.5cjdxcll0gook8o8@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <43157302@serv3.int.kfs.ru> References: <20080213224717.GA59146@freebsd.org> <53884346@ipt.ru> <20080214091408.GA82434@freebsd.org> <43157302@serv3.int.kfs.ru>
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Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> (from Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:35:21 +0300)= : > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:14:08 +0100 Roman Divacky wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:41:09AM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: >> > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:47:17 +0100 Roman Divacky wrote: >> > >> > > I noticed that linux-pango is version 1.10 (latest is 1.18), >> > > linux-glib2 is 2.6 (latest is 2.14) etc. etc. >> > >> > linux-glib2 is glib2-2.6.6-1, the lastest available for FedoraCore-4: >> > =20 >> http://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/glib2-2.6.6= -1.i386.rpm >> > >> > > I tried to run firefox 3 beta 3 under linux emulation and >> > > it crashed because of some missing symbol in pango and I think >> > > its because our linux-pango is really outdated and does not >> > > meet the minimal requirements for firefox3. >> > >> > > why havent these ports been updated? >> > >> > The port won't ever be updated. More likely a new port, say >> > linux-f7-glib2 will appear after the default osrelease is switched >> > to 2.6.x. I'm not happy with creating a new port, but maybe it is the only good =20 solution we can do. I didn't think much about installing a different =20 version depending on the default linux port, but I don't like this =20 idea much, as it may result in a nightmare. Informed opinions (with a =20 list of bad things and why it doesn't matter) in favour of this are =20 welcome. >> ah.... good to know.. will there be some sort of "update from fc4 =20 >> to fc7" script? > > I need to think about it. Maybe standard portupgrade/else would be > enough. I think an UPDATING entry will be enough. Bye, Alexander. --=20 Real programmers don't write memos. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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