From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 10:05:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6F416B86F for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-gnome@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8262043D62 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:05:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-gnome@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Flk36-00028x-Hi for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:05:04 +0200 Received: from panix2.panix.com ([166.84.1.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:05:04 +0200 Received: from mark.evenson by panix2.panix.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:05:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org From: Mark Evenson Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:48:03 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <447EA9C3.3050107@gmx.at> References: <447EA1B6.6090609@extramile.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060518) In-Reply-To: <447EA1B6.6090609@extramile.ro> Sender: news Subject: Re: Gnome 2.14??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:05:34 -0000 Stefan Vrabie wrote: > Hi there... > > Here goes... I have FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, fresh install without gnome or > anything... just the core system. I want Gnome 2.14... I've had it in > Fedora Core5, Ubuntu Dapper, and it's heaps better than Gnome 2.12... > > So in a proper RTFM-ish manner I read the manual... - > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 > > Hmm, I should # pkg_add -r gnome2 ? Great... especially since the manual > says "This will download the latest GNOME 2.14 packages from the FreeBSD > FTP site, and proceed to install them on your system."... > > But guess what.... After that was over with... I got Gnome 2.12 ??? How > come??? Please take a moment to try and imagine the frustration.... the > great news? to upgrade a simple portupgrade -a would do.... not much > good, cause it would take quite some hours... [I am not part of the GNOME team, so take this as non-authoritative.] The binary packages often lag a bit behind the the ports tree, so if you want the absolute latests, you have to build GNOME from source, so either a) wait for the binary packages to update (not sure how one can check status here) or b) "portupgrade -s x11/gnome2". And yes it will take a while to build. NB: if you use Evolution with Exchange you might want to hold off, as I have been bitten [[1]] with a (as of yet unduplicated) problem with evolution-2.14.2 and evolution-exchange-2.14.2. [[1]] news://news.gmane.org:119/e5jugr$at6$1@sea.gmane.org