Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:18:32 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Jim Arnold <jarnold@knightridder.com> Cc: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4.2 port is a horror!! Message-ID: <1017256712.3ca21b082acec@webmail.neomedia.it>
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> After a lot of testing and searching I finally found the answer. > I pkg_deinstalled all the XFree86-4 stuff I had installed. When I started > I just had one pkg, the meta-port, but along the way had pieces and part of > 4.2 installed after failing time and time again with portupgrade. > Doing a pkg_deinstall -f all those packages was necessary. > Then I went into the ports *in the following order* and did a "make > && make install && make clean": > XFree86-4-libraries/ > XFree86-4-clients/ > XFree86-4-documents/ > XFree86-4-manuals/ > XFree86-4/ (don't forget this one!) > Before doing this I also uninstalled imake, since in my investigation > XFree68-4 seemed to compile better when it had to rebuilt it. FWIW, I don't remember meeting any significant problems in installing X 'by hand', i.e. without portupgrade, just within the ports framework: in other words, by deinstalling the old version before installing the new one, as usual (well, er, as was the usual and recommended procedure in the golden olden days :-)) I seem to recall, or rather I seem to have read on the lists, that portupgrade couldn't -- cannot yet? -- automagically[*] deal with the XFree86-4 port, and direct, if simple, manual action was recommended. IIRC, this is the only (?) case portupgrade can't (as yet) manage properly. [*] à la Loseblows Update. BTW, pkgdb(1)[**] suggests a quick recipe for inspecting your 'local' tree for any cruft. In this connection, the X option of find(1) may prove useful. [**] Cf. the EXAMPLES section. > FWIW, I did all of this from Konsole while running KDE. X continued > to run fine until all of > it got installed several hours later on my 400 mhz box and then restarted X. No, sorry, so far I have always done it from an actual console :-)) -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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