Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:29:43 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: more notes on upgrading via wiki instructions Message-ID: <20061130012943.GA61646@mail.scottro.net>
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I went through the upgrade again to try out the various changes. Once again, I used a basic PCBSD install as my base. PCBSD doesn't have xorg-6.9 or the font, nest and print servers, so I was able to ignore the first instructions. Doing the pkgdb -F, rather than a libX11 -> xorg-libraries dependency, there was one for libXft and xorg-libraries, which I removed. It also fixed a number of stale dependencies. (I think that's expected, this is after upgrading xorg-libraries.) As per the new instructions, I upgraded xorg-server before going to xorg-drivers. Then, rather than the conservative way of installing the entire xorg-drivers metaport, I just installed drivers for the video card, mouse and keyboard. I skipped the other conservative (I'm not using conservative in a bad way here, careful would be an equally appropriate word) step of then cd-ing to the xorg megaport and installing it. After installing the drivers, I went straight to the portupgrade of libGL and libglut. As I believe has been mentioned, there were problems yesterday with the libglut portupgrade, but tonight, it was fine. When this was done, I typed startx and everything was fine. I really might try this on a serious workstation soon, these practice runs are making me feel it is pretty safe. Thanks again to all of the team who are working to make this an easy upgrade. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: Buffy, these men are rich, and I am not being shallow. Think of all the poor people I could help with all my money.
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