From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 23:50:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C4A637B403 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10342 invoked by uid 100); 25 Oct 2001 06:50:27 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15319.46643.673505.86282@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:50:27 -0500 To: Nathan Mace Cc: Edwin Groothuis , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading X windows In-Reply-To: <77223655@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Edwin Groothuis types: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:50:58PM -0400, Nathan Mace wrote: > > so bascially you saying mr -rf /usr/X11R6 and pkg_remove qt/gtk to get > > the majority of graphical apps and then pkg_delete the remaining > > graphical apps and then install X from the ports and start all over > > again installing my apps from ports? it wouldn't be bad at all if i > > could do it without reinstalling all my apps. > You of course can try it without uninstalling /usr/X11R6 first, > but it's not something I recommend. If you've got the space, the best way is to mv /usr/X11R6 out of the way, then install the new X port. You can then use a shell script and pkg_info to hard link the files from the old X11 installs into the new tree. That way, switching back is a matter of remove X11R6 - the new stuff - and mv'ing the old directory back. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message