Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 08:26:34 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade & portmaster Message-ID: <44bqgdhwn9.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20070522003344.1d1eb610@gumby.homeunix.com.> (RW's message of "Tue\, 22 May 2007 00\:33\:44 %2B0100") References: <302F75DC2739FB43B236373398A8C59929F4@saturnus.intra.socruel.nu> <44k5v198yh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20070522003344.1d1eb610@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> writes: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:13:10 -0400 > Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > >> "FreeBSD-Ports" <FreeBSD-Ports@socruel.nu> writes: >> > >> > After reading /usr/ports/UPDATING I thought well just try what it >> > says, so I issued the command setenv XORG_UPGRADE yes as root and >> > then did a portmaster xorg-libraries. This update went fine. >> >> That's *not* "just what it says." It says that the directions are for >> portupgrade only, and for other tools you need to get an upgrade path >> from the author of the tool. Furthermore, in the message to which you >> are following up, the author of portmanager said that his advice was >> not to use portmanager for this upgrade yet, and if you wanted to use >> it anyway, to start by removing all your ports and building them over. > > s/portmanager/portmaster/ Oops. Right.
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