From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 14:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB1337B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA03315; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:01:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Michael Lucas" , Subject: RE: deleting XF863 w/o package? Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:09:47 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20001025141310.A75671@blackhelicopters.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, My girlfriend was in the same boat. She had installed XF86-3 via sysinstall at the time of original installation a few weeks ago. Since then, she had decided to install 4.01_3 and just built it from ports, and configured as normal. I hate to be the one to disappoint, but it doesn't seem like it'll be much of a problem. You could always wipe out your /dev directory for a little excitement! -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of }Michael Lucas }Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:13 PM }To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: deleting XF863 w/o package? } } }Hello, } }I'd like to install xf86-4, simply because my machine is performing }too well and I need some system disruptions to improve my sysadmin }skills. } }xf86-3 was installed at sysinstall. Therefore, there's no entry in }/var/db/pkg. } }Can I safely write xf86-4 over xf86-3, or do I need to go through and }manually delete the xf86-3 files? Is there an easy way to do that? } }Thanks, } }==ml } }-- }Michael Lucas }mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org }http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ }Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons } } }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message