Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:42:09 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16.1 has been committed Message-ID: <op.thg4sjdp9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <200610150852.22727.kstewart@owt.com> References: <1160818961.8394.89.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <4531BEF0.5040907@FreeBSD.org> <op.thf6x8em9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <200610150852.22727.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:52:22 -0500, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 22:31, you wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:54:08 -0500, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> > wrote: >> > John Hay wrote: >> >> It looks like ports/UPDATING is mixing sysutils/portmanager and >> >> portmaster in the 20061014 part that tells how to update gnome. Is >> >> that on purpose? >> > >> > The entry says this: >> > >> > 20061014: >> > AFFECTS: All GNOME users >> > AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org >> > >> > GNOME has been updated to 2.16 and all GNOME components have >> > been moved from X11BASE to LOCALBASE, to upgrade your GNOME desktop >> > and applications you will need either sysutils/portupgrade or >> > sysutils/portmaster. >> > >> > Portupgrade users: >> > pkgdb -Ff >> > portupgrade -rf glib-2\* cairo gnome-doc-utils gnome-mime-data \ >> > gnome-audio startup-notification dbus >> > >> > Portmaster users: >> > portmaster -r pkg-config\* >> > >> > >> > The introductory paragraph says "either/or," so it seems pretty >> > clear to me that if you use portupgrade, do X; if you use >> > portmaster, do Y. I'm sure however that if you have suggestions for >> > improving that paragraph, the gnome folks would like to hear them. >> > :) >> > >> > For those that choose to use portmaster to do the upgrade, first of >> > all, thanks. :) Second, please make sure that you use the latest >> > version (1.9), and do NOT attempt this with earlier versions. If >> > you do, it will fail in a spectacular and painful fashion. I worked >> > closely with mezz to make sure that portmaster would Do The Right >> > Thing for this upgrade, and found and fixed several problems with >> > the way -r was handled previously in the process. >> >> I have added an important sentence in UPDATING about that need to >> have least 1.9 version of portmaster to have the upgrade success. >> Thanks for remind! :-) > > You need a little bit more. Cairo won't update because the > portupgrade -rf won't build the glitz dependancy of cairo. Please do not lose the gnome@freebsd.org from the CC. I don't know anything about glitz, so I will not able to help you. I am adding gnome@freebsd.org back in. Please send us the build log for one of my team can have the more clues. Cheers, Mezz > Kent > >> >> portmaster rocks! >> >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> >> > One last thing, you will probably be happier if you add either -d >> > (to delete all stale distfiles) or -D (to not delete any distfiles) >> > to the beginning of your command line for portmaster. That way once >> > you get past the 'make config' stage and actually start building >> > stuff, you _probably_ won't have to answer any more questions. >> > Also, given that if this update fails part way through, a backup >> > package of the old port probably won't help you, you could save >> > yourself some time by using the -G option as well. >> > >> > In the unlikely *cough* event that portmaster chokes a bunny while >> > doing this upgrade for you, please feel free to send a message to >> > the list, and cc: me. I do pay attention to those messages, but >> > given my real world commitments at this time, you might very well >> > get the right answer faster from someone on the -ports@ list before >> > I could provide it. >> > >> > >> > hth, >> > >> > Doug -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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