Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:10:26 -0600 From: James <jamesh@lanl.gov> To: Tino Engel <elrap@web.de> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg 7.3 Message-ID: <1193958626.72435.2.camel@secretariat.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <200711012156.47568.elrap@web.de> References: <cff9f2d10710310943o7a334291iab8735e7948ed963@mail.gmail.com> <98ECC10257BD242C6DC7D050@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> <472A161F.1070007@gmx.net> <200711012156.47568.elrap@web.de>
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On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:56 +0000, Tino Engel wrote:
> Unfortunately portsnap fetch has performed an upgrade to xorg-7.3_1 for
> RELENG_6_2.
> I do not trust this at all. I would bet doing a portupgrade would break xorg
> more or less irreversibly. I have already gone through this trying to upgrade
> to RELENG_7.
> Is there a poosiblilty to revert the upgrade of the ports tree back to the
> stable version?
> >
> > Isn't the default X11BASE for 6.2 still on /usr/X11R6/ I thought it
> > still was, then you will run into trouble again when you are going to
> > update Xorg again in the future. So I think you will need a
> > X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in /etc/make.conf
Suck it up and do the upgrade. 6.9->7.2 was moderately difficult, but
with the new whizzy modular Xorg, it's only a one or two command job.
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