From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 20:56:37 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 09BAE16A4D4 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 20:56:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from host50a.simplicato.com (host50a.simplicato.com [207.99.47.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BF6D43D70 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 20:56:36 +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 E30D36AEBC3 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 16:56:30 -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 24073-07 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 16:56:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [172.16.36.219] (unknown [216.37.114.8]) by host50a.simplicato.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA696AF0C9 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 16:56:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <427BDA02.9040106@exitleft.org> Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 16:56:34 -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> In-Reply-To: <44ll6sdr71.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> 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: Fri, 06 May 2005 20:56:37 -0000 On 05/06/05 16:39, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > ravi writes: > >> i looked at the 20040723 entry again, but there is nothing more to do >> (in my case) listed there. also 20040723 gives instructions for 5.x, >> FreeBSD-current, -stable and older -current, but doesn't explicitly >> mention -release (which is what i run). > > 4.x was the -STABLE branch at the time of that entry. > You are running 4.9, which was a release from the -STABLE branch. > > Just follow the advice that entry gives for -stable and you'll be fine. > lowell, thanks for the response. greatly appreciated -- i was afraid my post would be buried by the archive copyright debate ;-). w.r.t your advice: i did follow the instructions in UPDATING. i am sure i am missing something obvious. here's the entry: > 20040723: > AFFECTS: users of FreeBSD-current, users of xorg > AUTHOR: anholt@FreeBSD.org > > The XFREE86_VERSION variable is deprecated and has been replaced by the > X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM may be set to xorg, xfree86-4, or > xfree86-3. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM defaults to xorg on FreeBSD-current. If you are > switching to xorg, you should follow this set of commands to cleanly upgrade: > > 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. > > Alternately, FreeBSD 5.x and later users can use portupgrade with packages: > cd /var/db/pkg > > 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. --ravi