From: "Mart Raudsepp (leio)" <leio@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos: gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:40:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JhERc-00059N-Al@stork.gentoo.org> (raw)
leio 08/04/03 01:40:48
Modified: gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml
Log:
Rewrite the session file section to note a possible, but unlikely, event of the file getting lost for portage users
Revision Changes Path
1.8 xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml?rev=1.8&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml?rev=1.8&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
Index: gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.7 -r1.8
--- gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml 3 Apr 2008 01:31:18 -0000 1.7
+++ gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml 3 Apr 2008 01:40:47 -0000 1.8
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml,v 1.7 2008/04/03 01:31:18 leio Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml,v 1.8 2008/04/03 01:40:47 leio Exp $ -->
<guide link="/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml">
@@ -84,24 +84,23 @@
<title>GNOME no longer available as a session option in GDM</title>
<body>
-<note>
-This section should only concern users of the GNOME overlay. Users who have been using GNOME 2.22 from Portage should be fine.
-</note>
-
-<p>
-GDM uses the files available in /usr/share/xsessions/* to figure out which desktop environment options the user will be able to select from the "Sessions" menu.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In GNOME 2.20, the file /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop was installed by GDM, which causes a lot of headaches. For instance, if you want to use another login manager (such as KDM or Entrance) capable of reading .desktop files but still use a GNOME session, you would have to install GDM even if you never used it.
-</p>
-
<p>
-In GNOME 2.22, that small issue was fixed and the gnome.desktop file is now installed by gnome-base/gnome-session (which is the actual program launched by the login manager to start GNOME).
+GDM uses the files available in /usr/share/xsessions/* to determine which
+desktop environments the user has installed and will be able to select from
+the "Sessions" menu.
</p>
<p>
-The problem is that Portage can sometimes fail to handle file collisions properly (file collisions happen when to packages install the same files) and may delete the gnome.desktop file altogether. To fix the issue, just remerge gnome-base/gnome-session.
+The appropriate file for GNOME is now provided by gnome-base/gnome-session-2.22
+instead of gnome-base/gdm, and due to this there are appropriate package
+blockers in place to avoid file collissions leading to this session file
+getting lost. The only thing that can go bad is that gnome-session does not
+get upgraded to 2.22 after it was uninstalled to resolve the gdm upgrade
+blocker. The symptom would be the lack of a GNOME choice in the GDM
+"Sessions" menu, in which case please check that you have gnome-session-2.22.0
+or newer installed. Note that this problem can not happen to gnome-base/gnome
+meta package users, as it will pull in the appropriate gnome-session package
+again.
</p>
</body>
</section>
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2008-06-21 17:15 [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos: gnome-2.22-upgrade.xml Remi Cardona (remi)
2008-06-20 6:45 Remi Cardona (remi)
2008-04-03 5:36 Joshua Saddler (nightmorph)
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