From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 13:44:55 2004 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 96C0C16A4CE; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253C443D1D; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3GKipjw025472; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:44:52 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Jeremy Messenger Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:44:52 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200404161152.04114.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404161344.52595.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading Gnome components using portupgrade 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: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:44:55 -0000 On Friday 16 April 2004 12:42 pm, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:52:04 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Friday 16 April 2004 11:39 am, sAndri Kok wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I have what I believe are Gnome components installed on my > >> computer (gimp, Gconf, gtk, glib, etc). I'm running portupgrade > >> now and I read the message that I should upgrade Gnome using the > >> script provided by FreeBSD Gnome. The question is, if I only have > >> parts of Gnome installed, while I'm using fluxbox as window > >> manager, do I need to run the script? or is portupgrade fine? my > >> portupgrade is currently still running and I don't seem to > >> encounter any problem (yet). > > > > I also run that way and from my experience the odds are pretty high > > that something will be done out of order. I did a portupgrade -pufr > > glib to do the upgrade and had a few problems that I had to > > manually update. I understand from other comments that re-running > > the upgrade script makes the update go faster than a -rf glib. If > > you look at ports that you have installed that depend on glib, the > > list seems to go forever. I don't know if a -pufrR glib would have > > prevented the problems but that would have used even more computer > > time to do the update. I think the AMD 2400+ needed something like > > 13 hours to do the update the way I did it. > > I personal would go for rebuild everything that depend on pkg-config > instead glib, because of libxml2, libxslt and etc that don't depend > on glib. > I think that is close to the overkill -rRfa. You only want to update the ports that should be updated. It hasn't been that long since I did a -rf expat. I feel strongly about updating all dependancies of libraries. That is one of the fine features of make in the programming world. If you modify a library, it updates everything that uses it. It just isn't always necessary. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html