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<!ENTITY base CDATA "../../">
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD GNOME Project: GNOME &gnomever; Upgrading FAQ">
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<!ENTITY % navinclude.gnome "INCLUDE">
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]>
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<html>
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&header;
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<ol>
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<li> <a href="#q1">What is new in GNOME &gnomever;?</a>
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<li> <a href="#q2">How do I upgrade to GNOME &gnomever;?</a>
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<li> <a href="#q3">The upgrade failed; what do I do?</a>
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<li> <a href="#q4">List of known GNOME &gnomever; problems and their solutions</a>
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<li> <a href="#q5">I have found a bug; whom should I alert?</a>
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<li> <a href="#q6">I want the fame and glory of the FreeBSD GNOME team! What
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can I do to participate?</a>
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</ol>
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<h2>Full Text</h2>
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<ol>
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<!-- Q1 -->
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<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a name="q1"></a>
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<p><b>What is new in GNOME &gnomever;?</b></p>
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<!-- A1 -->
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<p>Although the canonical summary of new features can be found at
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<a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/&gnomever;/">
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http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/&gnomever;/</a>,
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some of the most exciting new features of GNOME &gnomever; are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Initial PackageKit support. For updating from the GNOME.</li>
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<li>Upower replaces the power managment part of hal got ported.</li>
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<li>Cheese and hal got updated to work with cuse4bsd and webcamd.</li>
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<li>Evolution will load much faster now.</li>
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<li>A preview of the GNOME Shell environment has been added to
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the ports tree (<tt>x11/gnome-shell</tt>). This environment
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is being slated to make its official appearance in GNOME 3.0.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<!-- Q2 -->
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<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a name="q2"></a>
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<p><b>How do I upgrade to GNOME &gnomever;?</b></p>
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<!-- A2 -->
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<p>The answer is relatively simple:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<p>To build GNOME &gnomever;, you need to obtain the latest
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ports tree skeleton. This is most easily accomplished with
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<tt>portsnap(8)</tt> or <a
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href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html">CVSup</a>. Simply obtain the latest ports tree, and you are
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ready to go. Then do the following:</p>
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<pre>
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# pkgdb -Ff
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(resolve all moved or deleted ports)
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# portupgrade -R -x gnome-keyring -x libgnome-keyring gnome-keyring
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# pkg_deinstall -fO gnome-keyring
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# portinstall security/gnome-keyring
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# portupgrade -aW
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</pre>
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<p><b>NOTE:</b> it is recommended to run <b>portupgrade
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-a</b> to make sure you get all the necessary ports. The
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-W option simply makes things a bit faster by not doing a
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<tt>make clean</tt> after each port build.</p>
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<p>If you are a <tt>portmaster(8)</tt> user, make sure you have
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least 1.9 version. Then do the following:</p>
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<pre>
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# pkg_delete -f "gnome-keyring-*"
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# portmaster security/gnome-keyring
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# portmaster -a
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</pre>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<!-- Q3 -->
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<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a name="q3"></a>
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<p><b>The upgrade failed; what do I do?</b></p>
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<!-- A3 -->
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<p>Unfortunately, this is not only possible, it is highly probable. There are many possible
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valid GNOME configurations, and even more invalid starting points. If the script fails,
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follow the instructions in the error message to let the FreeBSD GNOME team know about the
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failure.</p>
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<p>The majority of build failures will be dependency-related issues. One simple way to resolve
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the problem is to remove the offending port, re-run <tt>portupgrade</tt> or <tt>portmaster</tt>, and then
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reinstall the port when the upgrade process is complete.</p>
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</li>
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<!-- Q4 -->
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<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a name="q4"></a>
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<p><b>List of GNOME &gnomever; problems and their solutions</b></p>
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<!-- A4 -->
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<p>Although GNOME &gnomever; is certainly the best release to date (of course), there are
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a couple regressions that slipped in, both in the GNOME code and in its implementation
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within FreeBSD. Some of the more visible issues are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Clutter based applications like mutter and a number of
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gnome-games, will crash when using Software Rasterizer rendering.
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You can check it with <tt>glxinfo | grep render</tt>. A solution is
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being worked on.</li>
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<li>Brasero has a bug that it crashes when creating new burn projects.
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Premade iso burning works as expected.</li>
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<li>PackageKit where ported to FreeBSD. It does have some rough edges still.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<!-- Q5 -->
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<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a name="q5"></a>
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<p><b>I have found a bug; whom should I alert?</b></p>
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<!-- A5 -->
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<p>Please read the FreeBSD GNOME Project's
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html">documentation on reporting bugs</a>.
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</p>
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</li>
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<!-- Q6 -->
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<li style="padding-bottom: 0.5em"><a name="q6"></a>
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<p><b>I want the fame and glory of being part of the FreeBSD GNOME team!
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What can I do to participate?</b></p>
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<!-- A6 -->
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<p>Please read our list of <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/volunteer.html">ways
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to get involved</a>!
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</p>
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</li>
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</ol>
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&footer;
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</body>
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</html>
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