On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Paul Tomlin wrote:
Is there some particular order in which gnome packages must be installed to get a functioning system.
No...
I don't seem to be able to get the 2.8 packages for 3.7 to allow me to associate files with applications [via File/Properties] and I don't see any "Open with" menu when right-clicking a file.
Yep, Gnome loves to rely on these little apps from freedesktop.org that are someone's implementation of the good idea du jour. desktop-file-utils is one such tool and it snuck in there w/o warning or fallback mechanism.
I discovered some errors in the logs noting that "update-desktop-databse" couldn't be found and managed to get a package [devel/desktop-file-utils] built from ports. devel/desktop-file-utils doesn't appear to have an OPENBSD_3_7 version, so I'm not sure if I horked it trying to keep /usr/ports reasonably in line with the base install.
Yes and no. desktop-file-utils didn't make it into 3.7 (my mistake) and while the code hasn't changed much, it's not a great idea mixing ports from different releases.
cd /somewhere cvs co ports/devel/desktop-file-utils cd /usr/ports/devel ln -s /somewhere/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils desktop-file-utils cd desktop-file-utils make package
It works... but you got lucky :).
I just wondered about package install sequence because there is some issue (which I also ran into) with gconf getting confused which re-installing libgnome cures (http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/index.php?p=66)
That page talks about Fedora. Gconf is one gnomeism that's actually been working reasonably well for us.
Marc
