Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:33:05 +0300 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: problem compiling xorg 7.2 Message-ID: <102365817.20070606203305@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <46661626.3000307@u.washington.edu> References: <7c80322b0706041228i44c8e91eo4aae31b515d665e@mail.gmail.com> <7c80322b0706041819k3645c68cwf25fc217492537ac@mail.gmail.com> <20070605122030.74364802@localhost> <7c80322b0706050657w3d7faef5yab779e11d1d5a2ba@mail.gmail.com> <20070606111923.226b3216@localhost> <46661626.3000307@u.washington.edu>
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Hello Garrett,
Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 5:04:22 AM, you wrote:
> Norberto Meijome wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:57:53 -0300
>> "Anton Galitch" <anton.galitch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I had xorg 6.9 installed, after trying to upgrade it with portupgrade I
>>> deinstalled it and now want to install it from scratch.
>>> My portmanager program works strange thats why I cant install it usin
>>> /usr/ports/UPDATING.
>>> Do you know any other way of installing it using another tools??
>>>
>>
>> no, use portupgrade as per the UPDATING doc, even if it is,effectively, a 'new' install
>>
>> _________________________
>> {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
>>
>> "Produce great people, the rest will follow."
>> Elbert Hubbard
>>
>> I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have
>> been Warned.
>>
> If it's a clean install of X11 / complete system, you can get away
> with doing the standard make install in the ports directories you want.
> The only thing that you need to do is export / setenv XORG_UPGRADE=yes
> like UPDATING states.
> For upgrades, yeah stick with a supported tool (currently only
> portupgrade-devel and portmaster I believe).
> -Garrett
As a side note, i used portupgrade, not portupgrade-devel.
I got a few ports reported as failed, but it turned out they were ok.
They only thing i needed to do was to change the path of the modules
in xorg.conf, to reflect the new location.
--
Best regards,
Ghirai.
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