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Presenting GNOME 2.20.1 and all related works for FreeBSD. The official GNOME 2.20 release notes can be found at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ . Beyond that, this update includes the new GIMP 2.4 (courtesy of ahze). The GNOME 2.20 update also includes a huge change in the FreeBSD GNOME hierarchy. We are now using the more standard DATADIR of ${PREFIX}/share rather than ${PREFIX}/share/gnome. The result is that fewer patches and hacks are needed to port GNOME components to FreeBSD. This will mean some user changes may be required, so be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for more details. This release and the things we accomplished in it would not have been possible without mezz's crazy idea to collapse DATADIR, and his persistence to make it happen successfully. Ahze and pav also deserve thanks for

- Set --mandir and --infodir in CONFIGURE_ARGS if the configure script supports them. This is determined by running ``configure --help'' in do-configure target and set the shell variable _LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS which is then passed to CONFIGURE_ARGS. - Remove --mandir and --infodir in ports' Makefile where applicable Few ports use REINPLACE_CMD to achieve the same effect, remove them too. - Correct some manual pages location from PREFIX/man to MANPREFIX/man - Define INFO_PATH where necessary - Document that .info files are installed in a subdirectory relative to PREFIX/INFO_PATH and slightly change add-plist-info to use INFO_PATH and subdirectory detection. PR: ports/111470 Approved by: portmgr Discussed with: stas (Mk/*), gerald (info related stuffs) Tested by: pointyhat exp run

Add a hack to fix a lot of hardcore paths of /usr/X11R6 to fix the problem for users that do not have symlink of /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local when they have gdm enable in the startup. Bump the PORTREVISION. Reported by: Werner Lehmann <elvis69@arcor.de>

Presenting GNOME 2.18 for FreeBSD. GNOME 2.18 is a departure from recent GNOME releases in that it focuses more on stability and functionality than on new features. Not that it doesn't have its share of new and exciting items. See http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/ for all the goodies in this release. GNOME 2.18 for FreeBSD would not have been possible without the hard work of the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our intrepid band of testers including J. W. Ballantine, Pawel Worach, Yasuda Keisuke, Pascal Hofstee, miwi, Yoshihiro Ota, Vladimir Grebenschikov, Jukka A. Ukkonen, Phillip Neumann, Franz Klammer, and Neal Delmonico.

Presenting GNOME 2.16.1 for FreeBSD. This release represents a massive amount of work by the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our testers. On top of the usual GNOME update, we have taken this opportunity to move GNOME from X11BASE to LOCALBASE. This means roughly 600 ports NOT part of the GNOME Desktop also need to be changed. The bulk of the move was carried out by ahze, mezz, and pav, but it would not have been possible without cooperation from the FreeBSD KDE team who worked with us to make sure GNOME and KDE can still coexist happily. We would also like to send a shout out to kris and pointyhat for putting up with multiple test runs until we got something that was solid. Back to GNOME 2.16. This release brings a huge amount of new functionality to FreeBSD. The standard release notes can be read at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ . But on top of what you will read there,

Don't chgrp the /var/gdm directory to gdm during the instal phase since the gdm user may not exist on the system yet. Instead, let the pkg-install script do this after verifying the gdm user and group exists. Reported by: pointyhat via kris

Presenting GNOME 2.14.1 for FreeBSD! Checkout http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/ for the official release notes, and a list of all the gooides in this new release. In particular, GNOME 2.14 focused on performance, and they did not miss the mark. There's some new eye candy, but most of the big things are waiting until GNOME 2.16. On the FreeBSD side, we tried to clean up all the crashers we could. In particular, we really improved GNOME's 64-bit support. The good news is that this release does not bring any big shared library version bumps, so you can almost do a simple portupgrade to get to 2.14. There are a few minor gotchas that will be documented in UPDATING shortly. The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like th thank the following users for their patches, feedback, and sometimes incessant complaing about crashes (you know who you are).

Mass-conversion to the USE_AUTOTOOLS New World Order. The code present in bsd.autotools.mk essentially makes this a no-op given that all the old variables set a USE_AUTOTOOLS_COMPAT variable, which is parsed in exactly the same way as USE_AUTOTOOLS itself. Moreover, USE_AUTOTOOLS has already been extensively tested by the GNOME team -- all GNOME 2.12.x ports use it. Preliminary documentation can be found at: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.txt which is in the process of being SGMLized before introduction into the Porters Handbook. Light blue touch-paper. Run.

Correct a severe security issue if a user without a home directory logs in via GDM. In such a case, the user would have had root:gdm privileges. This is now fixed by correctly changing back to the user's uid:gid. Submitted by: Pawel Worach <pawel.worach@gmail.com> Obtained from: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308050 Security: This fixes a potential privilege escalation problem

Fix an infinite loop that can occur when gnome-session attempts a logout. What happens is gdm gets locked in a tight loop forever reading, but never processing, the EOF from the IPC socket. PR: 80906 (amongst others)

One more pass at the gdm's. This time, allow the gdm user and group to be created even if BATCH is defined. Also, set PKG_PREFIX from the port Makefile so we can take care of directory permissions within the pkg-install script for both the port and package.

GNOME has just changed the layout of their FTP site. This resulted in making all the distfiles unfetachable. Update all GNOME ports that fetch from MASTER_SITE_GNOME to fetch from the correct location.

When building on bento use numeric UID/GID because bento knows nothing about user gdm and group gdm, so that the build is likely to fail. No PORTREVISION bump because this just unbreaks the build on bento.

Use user name instead of UID when setting owner for the directory with config files. This is necessary in the case when user already have gdm user registered in his /etc/passwd, but with different UID. No PORTREVISION bump because package remains the same.

When installing package automagically create required user/group if they don't exist. This should make it possible to do unattented installation of pre-built gdm package and gnome meta-package. Bump PORTREVISION.

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