Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 02:47:02 -0400 From: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: XFree86-4.1 appears to be broken Message-ID: <3B1C8066.91917B89@cvzoom.net> References: <20010604065030.A20441@johncoop> <20010604222651.A9057@moo.holy.cow>
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parv wrote:
> short answer, john, is, for me, the fresh cvs tree of XFree installed
> w/o a single problem, which identified (in make logs) as
> 4.0.99.9* ... good enough for me...
>
> ...and now the whole story...
>
> something weird happened to me this morning... for some reason i
> blasted away my XFree86 4.0.3 version + assorted programs.
Don't do that. What you should do is
cd /usr
mv X11R6 X11R6.old
{cd to the directory containing xc and}
make install install.man
Then, what you could do is something like:
find /usr/X11R6 | xargs chflags schg
This will protect your freshly installed XFree86 from being
overwritten. Then, cp all your old files over with cp -R; chflags will
deny you from over-writing the freshly installed files. After you're
finished, just do
chflags -R noschg /usr/X11R6
Then, and only then, if everything looks OK, you can rm -rf
/usr/X11R6.old.
See, my experience has been that you can't just install a new version of
XFree86 over the existing one, because it always caused the "make
install" to fail.
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