Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:43:48 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin <jmzgriffin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading KDE4 and General pkg upgrade problems Message-ID: <4903397.pLvGkmexfb@kontrol.kode5.net>
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My machine was not in use for a few months and when I booted it up the other day I naturally wanted to upgrade my packages. This brought about terrible problems resulting in me having to remove every package and start over. I had to remove a few in order to get past some pkg warnings. Then when the packages did download and install I had a problem with kdm which is started automatically using the "kdm4_enable" rc.conf variable, producing an error code and quitting the X server. Google revealed several posts where this issue has occurred to other users. I gathered that the X server needs to be rebuilt using the "WITH_NEW_XORG" make.conf variable and then a number of graphical software components require rebuilding also, with portmaster finally taking care of the remaining software upgrades. I just want to know what is the steps needed to upgrade KDE4 from version 4.10 to 4.12? Also can I be sure that my video card will work with the new X server having used the WITH_NEW_XORG make.conf configuration thing? As it happens I've reverted back to the packages I had before attempting the upgrade by setting pkg.conf url to ...release/0 rather than ...latest as I read somewhere on the internet. I understand work is underway to get pkg to overcome these version compatibility issues, has that been completed or is it some way off yet? Thanks for reading. Jamie.
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