Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:23:31 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to keep gnome up-to-date Message-ID: <20020521202331.GC1461@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <3CEAAC6B.10203@flyingcroc.net> References: <20020521155514.Y73657-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3CEAA9DA.50805@flyingcroc.net> <20020521201347.GA1461@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3CEAAC6B.10203@flyingcroc.net>
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:22:03PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote: > David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > >>Anyway, it is not very pleasant to try to bring a not-very-old system > >>up-to-date. Especially with the way that the X 4.1->4.2 path is broken. > >> > >> > > > >Have you tried using portupgrade? The X4.1->4.2 was pretty ugly, you > >had to get rid of 4.1 and install 4.2 when pkgdb -F (with > >portupgrade) I blieve and fix the dependency problem. > > > > > > I was trying to use portupgrade and it failed miserably. > > I then tried to deinstall X 4.1 and do portinstall of X 4.2 from the > meta-port. > > However, portinstall gets the dependencies reversed and tries to install > the fonts before the clients, since the fonts depend on the perl scripts > installed by clients. It just gets worse and worse. I ended up > installing clients by hand, then servers by hand before portinstall > would finish from the meta-port. > then you could not use portinstall and just use pkgdb -F to clean it up after you do a regular install via cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 && make install -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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