Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:07:17 -0600 From: "Edwin L. Culp" <eculp@encontacto.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree Message-ID: <20051106070717.t22s70nbgg4wgsw8@mail.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <C8D2F922-66F0-4653-B4AF-6F86F1675C1A@brooknet.com.au> References: <1131176568.3960.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051106052710.jn84zulfeo0k4g84@mail.encontacto.net> <C8D2F922-66F0-4653-B4AF-6F86F1675C1A@brooknet.com.au>
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Quoting Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>: > > On 06/11/2005, at 10:27 PM, Edwin L. Culp wrote: > > >> Quoting Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>: >> >> >> >>> 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 <list filename> that I >> should add as an argument and don't know where <list filename> >> 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 > Thanks, Sam. I found both the old and the new lists. As many times as I listed /var/tmp I didn't see it for all the other temp files there. I really appreciate it. ed
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