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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2004-04-17 05:21:40 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2004-04-17 05:21:40 +0000
commit61833735d87019d50c0d38dcb81f529c2cdf0502 (patch)
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parentadece3da686a8d70cbd4f8d8b789b768b6edc9fe (diff)
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New release notes: ports/UPDATING and ports/CHANGES.
MF4S: GNOME 2.6, KDE 3.2.1.
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index d34f6c0..33415df 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -841,6 +841,15 @@
useful on old &os; versions which didn't have &man.fetch.1;
support for this, and for some FTP proxies which always
report incorrect or bogus sizes.</para>
+
+ <para>Two new files have been added to the ports tree to track
+ note-worthy changes: <filename>ports/CHANGES</filename> lists
+ major changes to the Ports Collection and its infrastructure.
+ <filename>ports/UPDATING</filename> describes some potential
+ pitfalls that can be encountered when updating certain ports,
+ analogous to <filename>src/UPDATING</filename> for the base
+ system.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
@@ -860,6 +869,31 @@
<filename>driver.flp</filename> images are also obsolete and no
longer built.</para>
+ <para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application>
+ has been updated from 2.4 to 2.6.
+
+ <note>
+ <para>If you are using the older <application>GNOME</application>
+ desktop itself (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>), simply upgrading it from the &os; Ports Collection
+ with
+ &man.portupgrade.1;
+ (<filename role="package">sysutils/portupgrade</filename>)
+ will cause serious problems.
+ If you are a <application>GNOME</application> desktop user,
+ please read the instructions carefully at
+ <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html"></ulink>,
+ and use the <filename>gnome_upgrade.sh</filename> script to
+ properly upgrade to <application>GNOME</application> 2.6.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that if you are just a casual user of some of the
+ <application>GNOME</application> libraries,
+ &man.portupgrade.1; should be sufficient
+ to update your ports.</para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application>
+ has been updated from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="doc">
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index d34f6c0..33415df 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -841,6 +841,15 @@
useful on old &os; versions which didn't have &man.fetch.1;
support for this, and for some FTP proxies which always
report incorrect or bogus sizes.</para>
+
+ <para>Two new files have been added to the ports tree to track
+ note-worthy changes: <filename>ports/CHANGES</filename> lists
+ major changes to the Ports Collection and its infrastructure.
+ <filename>ports/UPDATING</filename> describes some potential
+ pitfalls that can be encountered when updating certain ports,
+ analogous to <filename>src/UPDATING</filename> for the base
+ system.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="releng">
@@ -860,6 +869,31 @@
<filename>driver.flp</filename> images are also obsolete and no
longer built.</para>
+ <para>The supported release of <application>GNOME</application>
+ has been updated from 2.4 to 2.6.
+
+ <note>
+ <para>If you are using the older <application>GNOME</application>
+ desktop itself (<filename role="package">x11/gnome2</filename>), simply upgrading it from the &os; Ports Collection
+ with
+ &man.portupgrade.1;
+ (<filename role="package">sysutils/portupgrade</filename>)
+ will cause serious problems.
+ If you are a <application>GNOME</application> desktop user,
+ please read the instructions carefully at
+ <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html"></ulink>,
+ and use the <filename>gnome_upgrade.sh</filename> script to
+ properly upgrade to <application>GNOME</application> 2.6.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that if you are just a casual user of some of the
+ <application>GNOME</application> libraries,
+ &man.portupgrade.1; should be sufficient
+ to update your ports.</para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The supported release of <application>KDE</application>
+ has been updated from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="doc">
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