Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:10:04 -0500 From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Gnome port Message-ID: <20060205201004.GA26968@endaba.vindaloo.com>
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Is there a reason that the gnome 2 ports don't use the conflicts
mechanism to avoid completely hosing an existing gnome 2 install? On
Friday I came across a gimp script-fu which would slice an image into
pieces and output html that rendered the complete image as a
table. But it was written in python and my gimp doesn't understand
python-fu. Well I figured that it would be a simple matter to:
# cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp; make config
and tell the the port that I wanted to use python plugins. And then a
simple:
# make
would either build the package or _harmlessly_ barf trying. Well, it
did barf but only after it had installed gnome2-vfs-2.12.x.x or
sumsuch and about 5 or six other gnome2-2.12 ports on top of my
working gnome2-2.10.x.x installation. Obviously this rendered the
installed gnome2-2.10 ports on my box inoperable in very difficult to
debug ways.
Would a CONFLICTS entry in the apropriate make files have stopped the
gnome overbuilds and left my system in a working state?
Also please don't get me wrong. I planned to update my laptop from
5.4-STABLE to 6.0-STABLE later this week. But this problem means that
I'm without my laptop for a client visit and mailserver build which is
not making me very happy.
Thanks
-- Chris
P.S. I glad to post a bug report an fling this email in the direction
of the port maintainers. Heck I think I could even script the process
of updating the Makefiles given enough time.
--
Chris Hilton chris-at-vindaloo-dot-com
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