Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:50:44 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: the wikitest upgrade instructions Message-ID: <20061129055044.GA53225@mail.scottro.net>
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As I mentioned the other day, I went through the upgrade procedure and found it relatively painless. (The dependency loop that I ran into, I later realized, was because my eye had skipped the step to pkgdb -F after installing xorg-libraries. I've now been playing with it a few times, seeing how many corners I can cut and still have it work. As mentioned, rather than installing the xorg-drivers port, I'm getting by with mouse, keyboard and mga for my video card. However, I notice that whichever of these I first install installs xorg-server as well, but doesn't remove the old xorg-server. I'm guessing that might have happened with the first installation as well. I wonder if it might work better (I'm going to experiment with this too, in the next few days) to do the portupgrade -R xorg-server before doing the xorg-drivers. I also found that I could, after doing the rest of it, skip the make install of xorg, which seems to install anything that was missed. :) At any rate, at least on these PCBSD test installs, it installs xorg-server but leaves the old one in there. Doing portupgrade -R xorg-server simply ignores most of the packages and skips the xorg-6.9 package. Lastly, I repeat that I've been doing this on a PCBSD installation, as it gives me a running BSD with X in about 20 minutes, so it's quite possible that they're doing something slightly different than a normal FreeBSD installation. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Are you ready to get down, you funky party weasel?
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