Presenting GNOME 2.10 for FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>
>> Tim Bishop wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:53:57AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>>
>>>> As always, GNOME users should _not_ use portupgrade alone to upgrade to
>>>> 2.10.  Instead, get the gnome_upgrade.sh script from
>>>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh (note: you may have to
>>>> wait for the website to sync before the script is updated for 2.10.  You
>>>> can get the latest version at
>>>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade29.sh if you don't want
>>>> to wait).
>>>
>>>
>>> Not overly impressed so far. The upgrade script (the second link above)
>>> carefully removed a long list of ports, then failed later on building
>>> openoffice. I'm now left with a system that's nicely crippled.
>>>
>>> I can put it back together - but it doesn't seem that "safe".
>>
>> Your system isn't crippled, Tim. In /var/tmp, you have a file named
>> gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXX (the X's are random chars). All you have to do
>> is fix the openoffice build problem -- or remove the openoffice line
>> from that file, and do:
>>
>> gnome_upgrade.sh -restart /var/tmp/gnome_upgrade_lst.XXXXX
>>
>> and it will pick up where it left off.
>
> This is nice info ... where is this script documented?  Other questions
> pop to mind, like exactly what's happening in all those many, many
> dependenciy questions, and when you say "delete", are you deleting files,
> or entries in a list, or what, exactly?
>
> That's a pretty intense script, it needs some documentation, I hope I just
> missed it.

The script is very simple, and self-documenting.  Just run it after 
reading /usr/ports/UPDATING and 
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq210.html.  Then follow the on-screen 
prompts.

If you need more information, just read the script's code.  It's written 
in Bourne shell.

Joe

>
>>
>> # Adam
>>
>>
>>
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