From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 21:42: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E6537B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:42:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DE643FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from islero@attbi.com) Received: from [192.168.1.149] (12-233-159-75.client.attbi.com[12.233.159.75]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <2003031405420400300mscple>; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 05:42:04 +0000 Subject: Re: portupgrade mess From: Islero To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.O" In-Reply-To: <15984.49289.541402.721523@guru.mired.org> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030313110908.00b5fb68@mail.host45.com> <15984.49289.541402.721523@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1047620522.46779.6.camel@cypress.380w.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 13 Mar 2003 21:42:02 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 09:31, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <5.1.0.14.2.20030313110908.00b5fb68@mail.host45.com>, pippo@bellnet.ca typed: > > I just upgrade XFree86 from 4.2 to 4.3 using portupgrade on 2 different > > machines. > That statement doesn't make sense. Portupgrade upgrades pors, not the > system. So you can't upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 with portupgrade. If you > actually upgraded the system, how did you do it? Did you then use > portupgrade to upgrade all the ports you had installed? If not, that > may be part of the problem. He's talking about XFree86 4.2 not BSD 4.2. Portupgrade is definitely the way to go. Also, XFree86 4.3 installs a new xinitrc which loads twm by default. If you want gnome-session or KDE you have to edit xinitrc to launch that session. > > Generally, when upgrading across a release, you want to deinstall the > ports in large chunks - all of them is best - and then reinstall the > ports from the new ports in the system. > >