gnome-applets install failure

[Randall Wood]

We are part way through an upgrade from GNOME version 2.16 to version  
2.18. Please be patient and this will be fixed within 24 hours.

On 1 Apr 2007, at 18:49, marcus aurelius wrote:

> I'm new to the list and if this has been covered
> earlier I apologize.  I haven't been on a mailing list
> in a very long time (try Windows 95 mailing list) and
> I'm just not seeing an easy way to search the archives
> - apologies if it's right in plain view.
>
> Ran port install gnome and things were chugging
> merrily along but I've run into an error I just don't
> know how to fix or work around...
>
> port install choked on gnome-applets with the
> following error messages...
>
> --->  Building gnome-applets with target all
> [ cut ]
> Making all in geyes
> Making all in themes
> Making all in docs
> xsltproc -o geyes-C.omf --stringparam db2omf.basename
> geyes --stringparam db2omf.format 'docbook'
> --stringparam db2omf.dtd "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML
> V4.1.2//EN" --stringparam db2omf.lang C --stringparam
> db2omf.omf_dir "/opt/local/share/omf" --stringparam
> db2omf.help_dir "/opt/local/share/gnome/help"
> --stringparam db2omf.omf_in "`pwd`/./geyes.omf.in"
> `/opt/local/bin/pkg-config --variable db2omf
> gnome-doc-utils` C/geyes.xml
> db2omf: Could not construct the OMF maintainer
> element.
>   Add an author, corpauthor, editor, othercredit, or
> publisher
>   element with the role attribute set to "maintainer"
> to geyes.xml.
> make[3]: *** [geyes-C.omf] Error 10
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build:
> gnome-desktop-suite gnome-applets gnome-audio
> gnome-backgrounds gnome-games guile gmp
> gnome-keyring-manager gnome-media gnome-python-desktop
> py-gnome libzvt py-orbit gnome-system-monitor
> gnome-user-docs gnome-utils gnopernicus
> gst-plugins-good gucharmap libgail-gnome libgtkhtml3
> system-tools-backends vino gnutls libgcrypt
> libgpg-error libtasn1 opencdk yelp libgtkhtml zenity
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> --------
>
> Is my mistake running 'install gnome' when i should
> have installed something else first (like install
> gnome-desktop-suite)?  I just assumed that if I ran
> install gnome it would install things in the proper
> order by itself.  Also, what exactly is a "roles
> attribute" and where would I add it in the geyes.xml
> file in each of the language subdirectories?  Or,
> better yet is there an easy edit, say to the docs
> Makefile, that would get me around this?
>
> Any suggestions or instructions will be greatly
> appreciated (even rtfm as long as i'm told exactly
> which fm to r).  :-)  If it's important, this is on a
> macbook pro.
>
> thanks,
> mark
>
>
>
>
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Randall Wood
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