From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Apr 29 16:27:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6218137B416 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (msgrel1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.77]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D456FA6F9; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:27:45 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7E61E6; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:27:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id QAA28204; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204292327.QAA28204@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: Tuc , marcus@marcuscom.com (Joe Marcus Clarke), blovett@bsdguru.com (Ben Lovett), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell 8200 - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go - XF86 Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:12:05 EDT." <20020427021206.38430BB29@i8k.babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.7) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:27:42 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote: > Well, it's probably perfectly find, but the packages are built once, at > release time, whereas the XFree 4.2 postdates the release, so it has to be > build from that port. If you build both from ports, then they are both > current. If you install both from packges, then they are both older (current > as of when the release was done). But if you build X from a port and install > the window manager as a package, then the wind up running with an older > package over a newer X. While this may be true of packages from a CDROM, it's not *necessarily* true of downloaded packages. The packages seem to be periodically rebuilt, although the times and frequency of package rebuilds seem to be a bit unpredictable, being around every 3-5 weeks. (I assume that, if the packages are rebuilt, they're also installed for use by subsequent package compilations.) The last package rebuild seems to have occurred around April 27th. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message