gnome-desktop fails to upgrade | 2.22.1_0 < 2.24.0_0 | 10.4.11 PPC

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 26, 2008, at 13:53, Tobias Weisserth wrote:

> I understand the problem now after reading the bug reports. But  
> isn't this a principle problem in the way ports are maintained (or  
> rather lack of maintenance)? My guess is that the port maintainer  
> just tested the port on his setup which might have been Leopard on  
> Intel. Before a port gets committed to all MacPorts users there  
> should exist at least one successful test run on all major  
> architectures (PPC/Tiger, PPC/Leopard, Intel/Tiger, Intel/Leopard).

Unfortunately, the vast majority of port maintainers only have one  
Mac to test on. When problems are encountered on other systems, we  
can commit fixes for those.


> Right now, broken ports are more or less the rule rather than the  
> exception after a "port selfupdate".

I do apologize that you've encountered some broken ports, but I don't  
believe that's an accurate statement in general.


> Will gnome-desktop be fixed in the end or is your workaround my  
> only solution?

It's up to the developers of gnome-desktop whether they fix it to  
work on Mac OS X again or not. Keep an eye on their bug report:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554263