Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:13:22 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@attglobal.net> Cc: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM Message-ID: <20000717101322.A97264@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <39723869.4BBAAAE4@attglobal.net>; from miklic@attglobal.net on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 04:34:17PM -0600 References: <XFMail.000716172546.conrads@home.com> <39723869.4BBAAAE4@attglobal.net>
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 04:34:17PM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > Believe it or not, I _think_ I might already be very close (I don't think I have > quite all of the dependencies caught yet, but it builds, installs, and runs > without a hitch...) Cool! Please also look at the various security fixes (i.e. in the Helix Code srpm there are a few patches that seem to fix some holes). From my limited attempt to make a port of this (which also failed) it hasn't been updated in quite a while, and some known holes where fixed in both RedHat's and Helix Code's distributions. --Stijn > > Andrew > > Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > On 16-Jul-00 Will Andrews wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:24:05PM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > > >> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and the ports collection, but I was > > >> surprised could not find a port for the GNOME desktop manager (gdm) > > >> since it is available for OpenBSD and NetBSD, and so I have been using > > >> kdm for a graphical login manager--is gdm available for FreeBSD? > > > > > > Make a port for it. I'm sure it is not a difficult job, but I don't > > > care since I use wdm just fine. :-) > > > > Actually, it's not an easy thing to port. I tried for a while, but even with > > some hints from the author, I finally gave up. > > > > It *would* be a nice thing to have in the ports collection, though. > > > > -- > > Conrad Sabatier > > http://members.home.net/conrads/ > > ICQ# 1147270 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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