Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:01:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Scott Michel <scottm@CS.UCLA.EDU> Cc: bush doctor <dervish@bantu.cl.msu.edu>, FreeBSD Ports List <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hints on u/g XFree86? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908231243450.4338-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <37C19FEC.81862CE0@cs.ucla.edu>
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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Scott Michel wrote: > So, I'll ask it again: Is there a relatively painless way to u/g > to XF86 3.3.4 w/o having to blat and recompile all my other ports > and having to re-frob all of my (precious) configuration? *SHUDDER* (was thinking about why I had to upgrade to 3.3.4, not the process itself). (long story involving a BP6 MB that would not boot with a PCI Stealth 3000 video, and the only decent 2D card I could pick up on short notice was a Matrox G400 with 32MB of ram. Talk about overkill, maybe I'll pick up a G200 with 8 or 16MB and move the G400 into a game machine). All I did was download 3.3.4 from ftp.xfree86.org in the right format, and follow the instructions. Went painlessly enough, but I've never had a port require 3.3.4 explicitly. They'd try to install 3.3.4 if no X was installed, but since installing 3.3.3.1 and before upgrading to 3.3.4, I installed a CD's worth of ports (finally upgrading from the last 2.2.8-STABLE and wanted a totally clean break) using the ports collection from about August 11, and didn't hit a single hitch. I'd say to look at the port to find out just what it is depending on. dependancies are on individual programs or files, not on ports/packages. (checking my ports to see if I can answer this question myself)... Nope, nothing that depends on anything other than binaries that 3.3.3.1 would install. It doesn't look like as much as a minor lib number changed, so your previously compiled programs shouldn't notice a difference. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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