Re: Upgrading from earlier versions of garnome

[Mads Kristensen <mdk2 unispeed dk>]

Thanks for your swift reply!

I've changed my prefix path and stated to compile garnome 0.17.1..

Mads

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:51:16 +1000
Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:

> <quote who="Mads Kristensen">
> 
> > I'm currently running garnome 0.15 on my Debian box and I would like to
> > upgrade to version 0.18. Is there any easy way of doing that without
> > breaking anything? I'm using garnome as my primary platform om my work,
> > so I can't afford to have any downtime when upgrading.. 
> 
> Change the prefix in gar.conf.mk and install there. Then change your
> startup scripts. That way, you can go back to the old version if you need
> to.
> 
> I'd strongly recommend building the latest 0.17.x, as that is the latest
> in the 2.0.x stable series, not the 2.1.x devel series. Plus it builds
> without a lot of fartarsing around. :-)
> 
> > I know, I know... "don't use something like garnome for a production
> > system!". But I just had to try Gnome2 so garnome seemed like the thing
> > for me.. And it's been perfectly stable..
> 
> Aye, but when you find bugs, bug-buddy is your bestest friend! Please make
> sure you build with -g. You'll have to go searching to turn that off
> anyway.:-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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