From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 12:57:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5AB314A27 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:57:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA28008; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:57:41 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:57:41 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Doesn't XFree86 Upgrade Properly Message-ID: <20000127205741.U97579@florence.pavilion.net> References: <3.0.32.20000128074338.00740384@idx.com.au> <3890AF42.21F5F672@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3890AF42.21F5F672@nwlink.com> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:49:06PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > Danny wrote: > > > > When it should be XFree863.3.6 > > You could try building it from a port, although when I did, the kernel > panicked and rebooted. This is my biggest pet peeve with FreeBSD. The > packaging/updating system needs to be expanded. No - you've got something else wrong there. Lots of people, including myself have built it from the port with zero downtime on mission critical machines. Building a port will _never_ panick a machine. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message