From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 6 12:36:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0FB16A41F for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:36:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from mailout2.pacific.net.au (mailout2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE6C43D6A for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:36:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (mailproxy1.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.86]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jA6CZxNd019761; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 23:35:59 +1100 Received: from [192.168.0.7] (ppp2028.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.32.40]) by mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jA6CZvTI014017; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 23:35:58 +1100 In-Reply-To: <20051106052710.jn84zulfeo0k4g84@mail.encontacto.net> References: <1131176568.3960.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051106052710.jn84zulfeo0k4g84@mail.encontacto.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Sam Lawrance Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 23:36:27 +1100 To: "Edwin L. Culp" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:36:09 -0000 On 06/11/2005, at 10:27 PM, Edwin L. Culp wrote: > Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke : > > > >> Now that the freeze in preparation for FreeBSD 6.0 is over (an >> excellent >> release to be sure), it is my great pleasure (on behalf of the >> FreeBSD >> GNOME Team) to announce the general availability of GNOME 2.12 for >> FreeBSD. >> >> The official release notes for GNOME 2.12 can be found at >> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/. FreeBSD-specific >> documentation can be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/. The >> documentation has been updated, but it will be a little while >> before the >> website rebuilds. >> >> Upgrading from GNOME 2.10 to 2.12 is tricky. You should NOT use >> portupgrade by itself to do this upgrade. Instead, download the >> gnome_upgrade script from >> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade212.sh. This >> script is >> a wrapper for portupgrade that contains additional logic to steer >> clear >> of some potential pitfalls with the upgrade. >> >> > Hello, > > It is always nice to know what you should have done;) > > A little late, I'm afraid, but when using the script is being used > and the upgrade fails because of a power outage after the ports > have been uninstalled and not rebuilt, what is the correct > proceedure to follow? > > I reiniciated the update by reexecuting gnome_upgrade212.sh -f and > it seems as though I'm going to loose some ports that were deleted > during the first execution. When I realized that was a posiblity, > I checked the -h option and saw -restart that I > should add as an argument and don't know where > might be or if I should have created it before iniciating the > upgrade process. > > Something like this: sh gnome_upgrade212.sh -restart /var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXXX