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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>

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