Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:23:12 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update (probably solved) Message-ID: <200303141523.h2EFNClo096147@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:40:47 PST." <20030314144047.GA29459@intruder.bmah.org> References: <1047429424.8471.40.camel@leguin> <20030312215939.GA12430@intruder.bmah.org> <20030314062915.GA26592@intruder.bmah.org> <200303141355.h2EDtBlo095298@whizzo.transsys.com> <20030314144047.GA29459@intruder.bmah.org>
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> If memory serves me right, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > > I ended up blowing away all of the XFree86 ports from the system and > > > reinstalling everything from the meta-port. The warnings from xkbcomp > > > went away, so I have this warm fuzzy feeling that when I get to my > > > workstation, everything will be fine. (In the meantime, my T21 > > > upgraded successfully with portupgrade.) > > > > This is very disappointing. I shouldn't have to nuke the ports all back to > > bare metal to make this work, sigh. > > Don't be too alarmed. > > This was the approach I took because I didn't want to take the time to > really investigate the problem. You might have missed the part where > I mentioned that upgrading my T21 with portupgrade worked fine. I've > done one other system (a desktop with an I815) with portupgrade as > well without problems. I just rebuilt the XFree86-Server-4 port, and will try to reinstall it and see if that resolves the problem. I'll at least have the work directory laying around to pick through while trying to resolve the problem. > I'd accept the idea that user error got me into the situation I was > in, thought I don't know (and at this point don't care) what exactly > it was. Maybe I upgraded ports in the wrong order. > > Personally, I'm happy and grateful that anholt@ was able to update the > XFree86 ports in time for us to include them in 4.8. I'm very happy to have the new XFree86 as well. I guess I'm just generally moaning about some likely undetected dependency in the ports system that caused 'portupgrade' to not work for me. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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