From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 11 03:22:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D2716A419 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:22:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A071213C461 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:22:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so569113uge for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:22:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=CV67K9Bs8YvThiPjgdwc5xjoqrHR1RPE45MdJI11Oioug4srVKTO/23sePWZo2MLIJ4eE4yDXVtlgSiSTFWSeKdplAQzxCfMwy781iaHGgMLSKCjqjwNS98Ep4gz2nnhH4gvGewWrLYmTWMRgkyDqK2qpsaJHQxbLcNE1lLsc+U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=KOauhbVfzZkjF97t6AVIoXDHeE4zMTNzeH43EJ8WQaWk3ogWzj7/QdxV/zvNztyChXfx2S89Pwc2bN9cCqFkItZBLRLHKrfjf4HByRaKAQZ26cnsrbEFVAvJpqU3Jez2Og6ppFW1P5F8964ALUSUMX28fGcTRO+R+BFGWUKaULE= Received: by 10.67.89.11 with SMTP id r11mr3551393ugl.1186802561881; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com ( [86.18.88.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i8sm3621016nfh.2007.08.10.20.22.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46BD2B80.7030103@crackmonkey.us> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:22:40 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Tobin References: <20070810230130.BF73324A339@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070810230130.BF73324A339@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam J Richardson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy switch to xorg 7.2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:22:44 -0000 Richard Tobin wrote: > I just did a 6.2-RELEASE install, only to find when I tried to install > some packages from stable that everything has switched to Xorg 7.2. > Can I just pkg_delete all the old xorg* packages and then pkg_add the > new ones? Is "pkg_add -r xorg" all I need? > > -- Richard Hi Richard, It's trickier this time. You should read the comments on Xorg in /usr/ports/UPDATING, even if you're installing and not updating. I've given up for the moment due to some weird problem with missing OpenGL drivers. I'll install Xorg 7.2 [or higher?] when I upgrade to 7.0-RELEASE. Regards, Adam J Richardson