Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:11:33 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading to XFree86 4.0.2 via the Ports Message-ID: <3A896AC5.4CEEE22D@magpage.com> References: <3A852965.B30E8FBB@callgtn.com> <20010210091324.A45179@northernbrewer.com>
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What were the symptoms of your "not having a lot of luck" by just installing over the old version? Is there a proven way to upgrade to the latest and greatest XFree86 without having to reinstall all my x-dependant apps? I think I remember reading a post to this list that mentioned that a binary install using the install.sh script upgraded X perfectly, but I haven't been able to find that post. I guess I'm just looking for the way to accomplish this with the least amount of downtime since this box is my workstation at work and I don't want to be out of commission for too long. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. Christopher Farley wrote: > > Erik Rothwell (erothwell@callgtn.com) wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I think I'm going to give the new XFree86 a shot... and so, I'm going to > > install it from the ports collection, but, what should I do to prepare > > for the install? Should I uninstall the previous version of X by > > pkg_delete ? Will this mess up my existing X programs such as GNOME etc > > etc? > > > > Basically, I suppose I'm inquiring as to how easy this install is going > > to be... seemless transition, and so on ;-) > > The normal advice I had seen regarding upgrading X is to just > install over the old version. However, I didn't have a lot of luck > doing that when I upgraded from 3.3 to 4. Among other things, I > think the install had difficulties with the symbolic links that > XFree-3.3 created. > > I prepared for my upgrade by copying the X11R6 directory to X11R6.old; > then uninstalling everything that lives in /usr/X11R6/bin, and > reinstalling it all again. > > Hopefully there is a better procedure, but this seemed to be the > cleanest, if not the quickest, way to upgrade. > > -- > Christopher Farley > www.northernbrewer.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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