Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 04:30:11 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>, "" <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, "" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update - problems that surely have solut ions...? Message-ID: <20030317042655.M695@shell.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <20030316152423.A73850@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <20030315151756.EEBF1BC@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> <20030316152423.A73850@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Doug Barton wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Alban Hertroys wrote: > > > One thing that doesn't seem to work is installing the XFree-4 metaport > > of 4.3.0 over the old XFree 4.2.1 installation. The metaport succesfully > > finds all it's dependencies, and just registers - without compiling > > anything at all. Any tricks to this? > > That's the expected behavior. You want to pkg_delete all the old stuff > first. Just not while you're in X. :) All these dependancies made me dizzy, so before going on an upgrade spree I did exactly that, pkg_delete'd all my old X junk (including KDE). KDE 3.1 has now been building for over 24 hours. I'd forgotten how huge it is. On the bright side, pkgdb -F is returning with no complaints. All in all, 4.3.0 is looking wonderful here. Charles > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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