From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 5: 9:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F0937B436 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (Sturm@mail.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.161]) by klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2RD9XJk062654 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:09:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:09:33 +0100 (CET) From: "Hartmann, O." X-X-Sender: ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86-4.2 port is a horror!! Message-ID: <20020327140252.S36644-100000@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I cvsupdated today the ports tree and saw that XFree86-4.2 has been merged into the ports-tree. In the past it was a easy job to 'maintain' an existing X11 environment by simply install a newer version over the older, except when a major release change was merged, like XF86-3 to XF86-4. Doing an easy administrative job, keeping all the config stuff for our site has been smashed by this 'new' release of a XFree86-4 major release. It is impossible to simply 'make install' within the new ports directory, I receive weird messages of 'installations', but effectively there is nothing been installed. The only way to resolve was to move the old X11R6 dir to a secure place ... Then the install works. But: doing this seems to be a useful task for those using their "system' at home, but whats up with a server, carrying many programs withing the X11R6-tree which are needed by other important programs ... it costs a lot of work to reinstall! Maybe it is easier to keep a 'hand-made' installation by the self-patched original sources in the tree ... -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 (Buero) FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message