From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 22 12:38:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77ED016A473 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 12:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E5213C468 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 12:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 25555 invoked from network); 22 May 2007 12:38:55 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 May 2007 12:38:55 -0000 Received: from Lowell-Desk.localdomain (Lowell-Desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6295628439; Tue, 22 May 2007 08:38:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: by Lowell-Desk.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 06E871CD68; Tue, 22 May 2007 08:38:52 -0400 (EDT) To: "Lars Wittebrood" References: <302F75DC2739FB43B236373398A8C59929F5@saturnus.intra.socruel.nu> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 08:38:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <302F75DC2739FB43B236373398A8C59929F5@saturnus.intra.socruel.nu> (Lars Wittebrood's message of "Tue\, 22 May 2007 07\:37\:11 +0200") Message-ID: <447ir1hw2r.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade & portmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:38:56 -0000 "Lars Wittebrood" writes: > The only message I wanted to give/bring was that I was able to upgrade > the xorg-libraries port with with portmanager and I described how I did > it. Ah. Sorry; that was rather unclear. I think any upgrade methods will work fine if you remove enough X-dependent applications first. This is impractical for many production servers, but upgrading from source will be impractical for such machines anyway (just because it takes too long, and many programs will be broken for much of the upgrade process). Even on my build machine (which doubles as my desktop; the server is a much slower machine), I removed most of my applications to make sure that the X base would be upgraded first. That way, I could force specific applications to be rebuilt quickly when I wanted them.