From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 13 10:03:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28451 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 10:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28446 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 10:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/CJKv1.99-CAIS) with SMTP id NAA27040; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:03:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA15150; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:03:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:03:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Randall Hopper cc: Nathan Dorfman , FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: upgrading XFree86 In-Reply-To: <19970713114946.61308@ct.picker.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Randall Hopper wrote: > Chuck Robey: > |I want to upgrade my XFree86 to 3.3, but I have a ton of stuff in my > |existing /usr/X11R6 ... does anyone know if XFree86 can be upgraded via an > |overlay? Otherwise, this's gonna be the upgrade from hell ... > > I know what you mean. For the same reason we compile non-X ports into > /usr/local, I'd sure like to see our X ports compiled for /usr/local/X11. This'd be pretty difficult, I think, because of imake's very incestuous relationship with the X11R6 tree. It would be a fantastic win, but I just don't think it'd be possible. > > I've never untarring on top of an existing dist because: 1) some XFree > alphas I believe have mentioned, don't do that -- it won't work, and 2) if > I don't like the new version, I'll want to go back or switch back and forth > to help debug the new, and no guarentee that untarring the old on top will > get me back to square 1 (likely, but no guarentee). [Backing the whole > thing up first is a pain and a space killer, and (for me) the only reason > to do that is because all our ports are mingled into the files]. I instead > use a custom script to cross-link all the port files into the new distdir, > and then make /usr/X11R6 a symlink. Works, but wish it wasn't necessary. > > Randall Hopper > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------