From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 18:19:59 2005 Return-Path: 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 B910116A4CE; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:19:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 62-15-215-140.inversas.jazztel.es (62-15-215-140.inversas.jazztel.es [62.15.215.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE9C43D1F; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:19:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from redesjm.local (orion.redesjm.local [192.168.254.16]) j2JIJxbK006348; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:19:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@redesjm.local) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by redesjm.local (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j2JIKBn9000802; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:20:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@redesjm.local) From: Jose M Rodriguez To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:20:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050319030449.GG4271@freebsdmall.com> <1111215496.41721.58.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1111255523.97034.24.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <1111255523.97034.24.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503191920.10846.freebsd@redesjm.local> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter (version: 1.1.0-3; AVE: 6.30.0.7; VDF: 6.30.0.31; host: antares.redesjm.local) cc: Murray Stokely Subject: Re: fam X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:19:59 -0000 El S=E1bado, 19 de Marzo de 2005 19:05, Bruce A. Mah escribi=F3: > If memory serves me right, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Alas, we used to have a section about this in our (FreeBSD GNOME) > > FAQ. However, since we enabled FAM support by default in gnomevfs2, > > we dropped it. I think it would be worth adding back in as its own > > FAQ, but I'm not sure if that's the best place to disseminate the > > information. > > Well, I'm strongly influenced by my ex-RE-ness, but I'd think that > the release notes would be one (but not the only) reasonable place to > put this. We already have a note for the 2.10 upgrade, and I think > that it could use a little more explication vis a vis: > > 1. The gnome_upgrade.sh script no longer upgrades ports that GNOME > depends on (but are not parts of GNOME itself). Users may need to > manually upgrade certain ports (for example, using portupgrade(1)) > before running the upgrade script to ensure that they are compatible > with GNOME 2.10. Specific examples are devel/libtool15 (1.5.10_1 or > later required) and print/freetype2 (2.1.9 or later required). > > 2. GNOME includes support for the File Alteration Monitor > (devel/fam) by default, in order to improve the GNOME desktop's > ability to respond to files being added, deleted, or modified by > other programs. To take advantage of this functionality, FAM must be > enabled in inetd.conf(5). More information can be found in > ports/devel/fam/pkg-message. > This is also true for, at last, KDE. cd /usr/src && make search key=3Dfam= =20 | less. Do the note only for GNOME will be inexact. This is used by=20 most modern desktops. =2D- josemi