From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 16 14:20:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wanadoo.nl (smtp0.wanadoo.nl [194.134.193.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2A837B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@eircom.net) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (p1278.vcu.wanadoo.nl [194.134.170.3]) by smtp.wanadoo.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f6GLJua00541; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:19:56 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:19:53 +0200 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: so@server.i-clue.de Cc: insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preferred way of going to XFree86 4.1.0 Message-Id: <20010716231953.57ab0415.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <3B533E46.D72BFCC7@i-clue.de> References: <20010716121206.B35206@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <3B533E46.D72BFCC7@i-clue.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.99cvs3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:19:34 +0200 Christoph Sold wrote: CS> > A recommeneded step by step. CS> CS> # tar cf backup.tar /usr/X11R6 CS> # rm -rf /usr/X11R6 mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-3 is *much* quicker and just as safe. Afterwards you can swap by 'mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-4; mv /usr/X11R6-3 /usr/X11R6' and vice-versa (you will have to mess with /etc/XF86Config similarly). Assuming of course you have enough space, which these days seems likely. CS> # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 CS> # make install distclean CS> CS> Note there are additional ports, names starting with the same prefix. CS> You probably want them, too. In addition, watch out: NVidia GeForce CS> chipsets are currently not supported. Also do not forget to rebuild all your X based ports. You have just deleted them without updating /var/db/pkg so things will be a little messy in the pkg tools until you rebuild them all. -- Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun http://www.best.com/~sohara To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message