Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:55:36 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Testers wanted for pre-build RC2 GNOME packages] Message-ID: <20020114125427.L72753-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3C42EB11.E65F64F8@FreeBSD.org>
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Maxim, it looks great! GNOME pops right up, and everything seems to work. Can you add my patch to gnomedb so that gnomedb-fe doesn't crash anymore? I think that may confuse some users. I'll keep poking at it, but it looks pretty solid so far. Joe On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > OOPS, my bad - misspelled your e-mail. > > -Maxim > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Testers wanted for pre-build RC2 GNOME packages > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:22:27 +0200 > From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> > Organization: Vega International Capital > To: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG > CC: marcus@marciscom.com, john_m_cooper@yahoo.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi folks, > > Release Engineering team has prepared the set of packages for the > second 4.5 Release Candidate. I would like to ask people with > sufficient bandwidth to test how well gnome metaport could be > installed with `pkg_add -r' to avoid unfortunate situation we had with > 4.4 pre-built GNOME packages. Unfortunately, due to the lack of > bandwidth I can't do the testing by myself. > > Set of packages is available at > ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.5-RC2 - > you probably have to tweak /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c to > use correct URL. To test it properly you'll need to delete all > installed packages (tar up /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local, delete those > dirs and move /var/db/pkg out of the way), and then do `pkg_add -r > gnome' using hacked pkg_add binary. After the testing is done, you > could easily restore your previous set of packages by deleting > /usr/X11R6, /usr/local /var/db/pkg, unpacking archived /usr/X11R6 and > /usr/local and moving old /var/db/pkg back. > > Please report your success or failure to gnome@FreeBSD.org. > > Thanks! > > -Maxim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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