From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 20:54:52 2005 Return-Path: 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 667D016A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 20:54:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from host50a.simplicato.com (host50a.simplicato.com [207.99.47.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC16E43D53 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 20:54:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gadfly@exitleft.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.simplicato.com [127.0.0.1]) by host50a.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558066AEFAB for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:54:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from host50a.simplicato.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (host50a.simplicato.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with SMTP id 39124-01 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:54:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [172.16.36.219] (unknown [216.37.114.8]) by host50a.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CB86AEF29 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:54:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4283C299.9060100@exitleft.org> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:54:49 -0400 From: ravi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050311 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <427A423E.30803@exitleft.org> <44ll6sdr71.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <427BDA02.9040106@exitleft.org> <427BE685.6030805@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <427BE685.6030805@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at simplicato.com Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE Xorg switch question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 20:54:52 -0000 On 05/06/05 17:49, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > ravi wrote: > >>> pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-* >>> cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install >>> pkgdb -F >>> >>> Users of -stable or older -current can switch to X.Org by setting >>> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in make.conf and following the same process. >> >> i did the pkg_delete -f, xorg make install and ran pkgdb -F. i also set >> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf. >> >> i still get errors from portupgrade, etc., regarding stale dependencies >> on imake-4 and various XFree86 ports. >> > Stupid question, but you did run these as root? I followed this same > procedure and remember no hitches. Even upgraded gnome as well, and > everything came back working. Clutching at straws, have you cvsup-ed > your ports? Does pkgdb -F run cleanly? Does pkg_info show anything > unexpected as being installed (such as imake or XFree)? > yes: ran as root, cvsup'ed ports. pkgdb -F reports a whole host of stale dependencies on XFree86* and imake-4. pkg_info shows nothing but imake-6.8.2 (and the only xfree86 related package shown is warpper-1.0_3). thanks for the response! --ravi