Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 13:23:52 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade Xorg 7.2.0 - mergebase.sh problems Message-ID: <86376CB18FB83ACEF2C3C466@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <4659592b.69edeb84.64c4.ffffec0c@mx.google.com> References: <4659592b.69edeb84.64c4.ffffec0c@mx.google.com>
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--==========1C32B623A3E630E47315========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On May 27, 2007 12:10:54 PM +0200 Christopher Prance=20 <christopher.prance@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought I was so close, nope not yet. I finally got my server = upgraded > with no problem. Well a few minor setbacks, but I got it done. Of > course it won't run on my Sony 19" monitor which I have yet to figure > out, but will in due time, but my server is not of importance, because I > don't run X on it, it is just a webserver for now. My Thinkpad is a > different story, I am trying to move away from my Windows laptop and > rely on only FreeBSD so I would really like to get X up and running > again. The file I'm attaching is a script of the mergebase.sh tool. It > listed several files that exist in both /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 and it > will not continue until I move or remove them. I don't know which ones > to remove and which ones to just move. Not too mention I did it by hand > on my server, because there was not that many. So any help here would > be appreciated. Is there are way I could make a script to move all > these files for me? Which I'm sure there is but my scripting skills are > beginners at best. :( Sorry for the long post, just had to get it out. > Thanks again ahead of time! > mkdir /usr/local/oldX11 mv /usr/X11R6/* /usr/local/oldX11/ Then run mergebase.sh again. If you ever need any of the files in=20 /usr/local/oldX11, they will still be there. If, after running for a=20 while, you find that they are no longer needed (and you need the disc=20 space), rm -fr the directory. The reason the script is written that way is because the authors have no=20 idea what you might have done in the way of altering files to fit your=20 install, and they are not going to arbitrarily overwrite them. That's=20 your decision as owner of the machine. Since you don't clearly understand = that already, it's unlikely you have anything critical that needs to be=20 saved, but caution dictates that you put them somewhere, just in case. After you've done that, if you still can't run X, go to=20 /usr/ports/x11/xorg/ and run make install clean. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========1C32B623A3E630E47315==========--
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