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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:35:19 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion
Message-ID:  <m3hdrvxga0.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> (Eric Anholt's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:11:09 -0700")
References:  <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin>

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Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> writes:

> OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. 
> No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time.  X.Org has
> been made the default X distribution on -current.  Other versions of
> FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade
> by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf.
>
> To upgrade, you must remove your XFree86 ports and install the xorg
> ports.  It couldn't be done with portupgrade, unfortunately, because we
> are keeping the XFree86 ports around.  To upgrade:
>
> pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-*
> cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install
> pkgdb -F

What dependencies do I tell pkgdb -F for the removed bitmap or scalable
fonts stuff? Is there a "one size fits all" answer? If so, can it be
noted in /usr/ports/UPDATING?

-- 
Matthias Andree

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