From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 13:00:27 2003 Return-Path: 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 7C6AC16A4BF; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao06.cox.net (lakemtao06.cox.net [68.1.17.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C8943FBD; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.37.247]) by lakemtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20030911200023.VQPU4662.lakemtao06.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:00:23 -0400 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <1063309044.702.36.camel@gyros> <1063310141.702.44.camel@gyros> Message-ID: From: Jeremy Messenger Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:59:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1063310141.702.44.camel@gyros> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Linux M2 build 459 cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Announcing GNOME 2.4.0 for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:00:27 -0000 On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:55:41 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:51, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:37:24 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke >> >> wrote: >> >> > I am pleased to announce GNOME 2.4.0 is now available for FreeBSD. >> > Unfortunately, due to timing issues with 4.9-RELEASE, it will not make >> > it into the official ports tree until after 4.9 is released (looks >> like >> > early October right now). In the meantime, you can get to it from my >> > CVS tree at http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi. For >> those >> > without CVS access, I have periodic tarballs made, and are >> downloadable >> > from the same URL. You should also download the marcusmerge script to >> > aid in merging my ports tree with the official tree. If you already >> > have a copy of the script, download it again. Things have changed. >> > I would like to thank the entire GNOME team for their outstanding work >> > on the new features in GNOME 2.4.0 as well as their willingness to >> > incorporate so many FreeBSD-specific patches. I would also like to >> > thank our own FreeBSD GNOME team. Without adamw@ and bland@, GNOME >> > 2.4.0 would not be possible. And without GNOME team members both past >> > and present such as sobomax@, ade@, vanilla@, nakai@, and others I'm >> > sure I've missed, GNOME on FreeBSD would not be what it is today. >> Also, >> > thanks to our GNOME users and GNOME 2.3 testers. Without their >> > invaluable patches, bug reports, and nagging, I'm sure things would be >> > quite broken. >> > >> > For the official GNOME 2.4.0 release notes, feature list, and >> > screenshots, please see http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/. For all your >> > GNOME on FreeBSD needs, please see http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. >> >> Great, thanks guys!! >> >> Just want to add something in here too.. I would recommend anyone to do >> the 'pkg_delete -f bonobo-activation', before you do the upgrade from >> Gnome 2.[0,2] to 2.4.. Perhaps, Gnome team should add about it in the >> FAQ >> in website? > > I actually fixed this in the latest release of marcusmerge. That's why > I recommend everyone downloads the script. That's even better, thanks! I am still using very old marcusmerge and it just work for me.. :-) But, I will get the new one right now. Cheers, Mezz > Joe > >> >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> >> > Joe -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.