From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 12:26:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tdl.com (tdl.com [206.180.224.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2139037B403 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:26:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdr@tdl.com) Received: from saffron.my.domain (pm5-69.tdl.com [206.180.234.69]) by tdl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07105; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:20:00 -0700 Received: (from wdr@localhost) by saffron.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f72JQJe06213; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdr) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: William Richard Organization: William Richard & Associates Ltd To: j mckitrick Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:25:48 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B69550D.3060803@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010802143532.A11148@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20010802143532.A11148@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080212254800.01448@saffron.my.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 02 August 2001 06:35, j mckitrick wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:26:37AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > | I found that pkg_delete -a and make install of all necessary ports > | is an extremely healthy activity as it removes a extremely big load > | of crap (read: useless/unused software). > | > | Just reinstall it all. You probably don't need that much anyways. > | ;) > > Any caveats I should look out for moving to version 4? Before you deinstall all of your X ports, make sure the new X server works. And make sure you can go back to 3.3.6 relatively expeditiously (mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11backup). The XFree86-4 X server dumped core on my allegedly-supported Matrox Mystique shortly after starting, so I never got past the configuration. If I hadn't had the old X11R6 directory backed up, I would have been mightily screwed. -- Cheers, William Richard wdr@tdl.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message