WARNING: Gnome 2.22 update

samuel samuel.verstraete at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 10:08:08 CEST 2008


too late :) and i don't want the *2 crap in moonbase anymore ;)

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Duncan Gibson <duncan.gibson at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> *WARNING* Gnome was updated to 2.22 and many modules have been renamed
>> to their official Gnome names to allow for quicker updates in the
>> future. This will not cause problems if you are installing Gnome for
>> the first time. Updating your existing Gnome installation will cause
>> problems. Lunar update will work fine, but may take an extended period
>> ...
>> For example:
>> GConf2 was removed from /var/lib/lunar/moonbase
>> GConf2: Do you want to remove GConf2 ? [y]
>>
>> Say yes, then interrupt the update, and lin GConf, where GConf is the
>> module name without the 2. After installing the correct module,
>> continue the lunar update repeating this process.
>
> Maybe it's too late for this suggestion now, but would it not be possible
> to provide a dummy GConf2 module with UPDATED=now that depends on GConf
> and therefore causes 'lin GConf' but itself has a do-nothing build stage?
> Similarly for the other *2 modules. Then after one month, assume everyone
> has updated and remove the *2 modules from the moonbase.
>
> D.
>
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