Re: gnomesystemmonitor port-override no longer needed?

[Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:39:04 +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:

> walt wrote:
> 
>> After the recent gnome update I found that the gnomesystemmonitor
>> package compiled and worked with no dfport override -- in fact it
>> wouldn't compile until I deleted the override directory.
>> 
>> Can anyone confirm?
>> 
>> BTW, I found that using the gnome_upgrade.sh script per the advice in
>> ports/UPDATING caused me far more grief that it saved me.  It deleted
>> almost every package on my machine and died in the middle of everything
>> due to build failures. It was just like using pkgsrc on NetBSD ;o)
>> 
>> 
> Upgrade script is supposedly no longer needed after GNOME 2.8 to 2.9
> upgrade.

But, you still have to rebuild everything that depend on atk. atk's shared
library version was bumped a little before or in the middle of GNOME 2.10
tarballs release.

> It was always faster to take
> their list of 'order of install' and do it manually.
> 
> OR strip it out and install from scratch...

This is what current gnome_upgrade.sh would do is collect the list of what
ports depend on glib20 and remove all ports that depend on glib20, then
build/install them back. If your build stopped in the middle of it, then
use the -restart option that will pick up where it stopped that way it
will still know what list of ports you used to have before.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Otherwise some items were built several times over by siccessive
> recursive makes...
> 
> FWIW, last time I did GNOME on DragonFlyBSD from a cold-start it worked
> with a simple pkg_add -rv ('bout a month ago now...)
> 
> Installing Xfce-4 atop it the same way made for a speedier machine and
> still had access to the GNOME-ish stuff.
> 
> Bill