From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 17:13:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 A0F9316A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:13:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (bantam.cisco.com [64.102.19.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF4543D46 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:13:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k0QHD3F19945; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:13:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from [171.69.215.93] (dhcp-171-69-215-93.cisco.com [171.69.215.93]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k0QHD2m27394; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:13:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43D90322.7060203@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:13:06 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shildreth@allantgroup.com References: <1138290504.11930.380.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <1138293962.11930.387.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1138293962.11930.387.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Fam vs Gamin 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, 26 Jan 2006 17:13:04 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Scott T. Hildreth wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:48 -0600, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: >> Every time I upgrade a product I run into this with portupgrade, >> >> Stale dependency: abiword-gnome-2.4.2 --> gamin-0.1.5_2 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. >> >> ...I didn't install Fam, some port did, should I install gamin instead? >> Does it matter? > > I see they both offer the same thing, but gamin uses kqueue backend. > Any advantage? Gamin is generally considered better than FAM on FreeBSD for two main reason. Kqueue makes it more efficient, and it is easier and more secure to deploy (it does not require rpcbind/portmap). To properly upgrade, use: portupgrade -o devel/gamin -f fam Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD2QMib2iPiv4Uz4cRAkDBAKCbVNb/29QHPcdwg2WwZFotd79RmQCfUBJK wPtF8mSwNT030FGqHgIEE58= =J+Hy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----