Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:23:11 -0500 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading to 4.6 and upgrading XFree Message-ID: <200206181923.11337.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020618111700.D20627@sjt-u10.cisco.com> References: <20020618111700.D20627@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
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On Tuesday 18 June 2002 10:17 am, Steve Tremblett wrote: > When making the world, there's an option for NO_X11 (or something like > that), so I'm just curious as to what actually depends on that and if > the version matters? Where is there a NO_X11 option? Making world does not depend on X. In general it's a good idea to set the version of X in make.conf, however. The default has changed from 3 to 4 (in FreeBSD 4.6). > Should I upgrade the OS first or X first? I'm > getting the impression that it doesn't matter, but I'm paranoid. It shouldn't matter. I do the OS first, but that's just habit. > I'm a little spooked about using portupgrade for XF86 - I can't figure > out why it doesn't understand the versioning on my system - when I run > portversion it shows MANY of my packages have a version GREATER than > /usr/ports, even after cvsupping /usr/ports and rebuilding the index. > I tried portupgrade for a few things and it started "upgrading" > dependencies but it actually tried to install lesser versions before I > stopped it. Portupgrade should work fine for X. The version problem is a little puzzling. I assume that /usr/ports isn't actually being updated. Are you sure you have a server specified in your supfile, and that you've uncommented all the port directories you want updated? > Can anyone suggest the best old-style route to upgrading X? I'm > guessing I should rebuild all my X-dependent ports as well? The old style route is to pkg_delete the program, and then install the new version. However, this is what portupgrade does, but with automatic dependency handling. The X-dependent ports should be rebuilt, I'd guess. -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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