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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:09:26 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing X from ports and RELENG in supfile
Message-ID:  <15022.32374.869613.862525@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <25633561@toto.iv>

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Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> types:
> I have a Geforce 2mx card and from what I understand from reading the
> archives, I need to install XFree86 4.x from ports for this to work.
> 
> I have no problems doing this, but what are the implications long
> term? What will happen when I do a make world ? Should I set my
> make.conf to not rebuild XFree86 ? What about when I upgrade from
> 4.2Stable to 4.3? 

Since XFree86 isn't part of the FreeBSD world, nothing will happen
when you do a make world. Your make.conf is already set to not rebuld
XFree86. If you upgrade from CDROM, don't install the X on the CDROM,
and you'll be fine. X may quit working, so you'll have to upgrade the
port. But that's possibility exists with any port when you do an OS
upgrade.

> Also, the pertinent line from my source tree supfile currently looks
> like this :
> 
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
> 
> What version of FreeBSD will I get if I do a cvsup right now? Will I
> get 4.2 Stable or 4.3 beta / release ?

It will be 4-STABLE, which is currently calling itself 4.3BETA.

	<mike
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