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To: stan <stanb@awod.com>
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Subject: Re: CF86 4.2 & portupgrade questiom 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:08:55 EST."
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:15:40 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:08:55 -0500
> From: stan <stanb@awod.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> 
> I saw a heads up a few days agao about XF86 4.2 going back inot the
> ports tree.
> 
> Since I normally cvsup, make world, portsupgrade several machines
> each weekend, I thought I would ask about any steps necessary to
> allow a smooth upgrade fro a mahine presently runing XF86 4.1 built
> from the ports tree.
> 
> I have machines like this where the X megaport swa used, and where individual
> XF86 4 ports were used.
> 
> What's the word to the wise?

I do a pkg_delete XFree86-4-\* and then do a 'portinstall
XFree86-libraries XFree86-clients XFree86-font100dpi XFree86-font75dpi
XFree86-fontCyrillic XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps XFree86-fontScalable
XFree86-documents'

Then I do 'portinstall XFree86-Server' and restart X.

I prefer this to installing the metaport as it makes upgrading a bit
easier, but you can certainly simplify a bit with 'portupgrade
XFree86'. Just be aware that, unless this has been fixed, this will
make several copies of the xc directory and X sources and consume
amazing amounts of disk space.

As soon as this is done, run "pkgdb -F" to reset all of the X
dependencies from XFree86-4 to XFree86-libraries where they can
happily remain before doing anything else.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


These are very large builds

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