Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:42:28 -0500 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading Gnome components using portupgrade Message-ID: <opr6kec2f38ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200404161152.04114.kstewart@owt.com> References: <BAY10-F10tIXwGO5EEc00044b5a@hotmail.com> <200404161152.04114.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:52:04 -0700, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote: > On Friday 16 April 2004 11:39 am, sAndri Kok wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I have what I believe are Gnome components installed on my computer >> (gimp, Gconf, gtk, glib, etc). I'm running portupgrade now and I read >> the message that I should upgrade Gnome using the script provided by >> FreeBSD Gnome. The question is, if I only have parts of Gnome >> installed, while I'm using fluxbox as window manager, do I need to >> run the script? or is portupgrade fine? my portupgrade is currently >> still running and I don't seem to encounter any problem (yet). >> > > I also run that way and from my experience the odds are pretty high that > something will be done out of order. I did a portupgrade -pufr glib to > do the upgrade and had a few problems that I had to manually update. I > understand from other comments that re-running the upgrade script makes > the update go faster than a -rf glib. If you look at ports that you > have installed that depend on glib, the list seems to go forever. I > don't know if a -pufrR glib would have prevented the problems but that > would have used even more computer time to do the update. I think the > AMD 2400+ needed something like 13 hours to do the update the way I did > it. I personal would go for rebuild everything that depend on pkg-config instead glib, because of libxml2, libxslt and etc that don't depend on glib. Cheers, Mezz > Kent -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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