HEADS UP 2.5 TESTERS: New FreeBSD GNOME Devel FAQ

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 29 10:23:50 PST 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 13:14, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:57:15 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Adam and I have cranked out an FAQ on tracking the GNOME Development
> > branches.  Here we're including common questions and known issues.  If
> > you're testing 2.5, you should definitely check it out.  If you have
> > items to add to the known issues section, please let us know.  Thanks.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html
> 
> Looks good! I think, add FAQ of upgrade from 2.4.x to 2.5.x and/or new 
> update of glib, gtk and pango 2.5.x is good idea. I usually do the 
> 'portupgrade -rf glib-2\*' and it works very well in my case so far. How 
> about someone has the different way?

I plan on writing a script for the 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrade.  There are some
gotchas that "portupgrade -rf glib-2\*" doesn't handle (e.g. libxml2,
scrollkeeper, etc., plus updating gnomevfs2 again after updating
libgnome).

Joe

> 
> > Joe
> >
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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