From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 9:35:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com (h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com [24.207.15.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFDD37B410 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 09:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dccnet.com (kevine01.ugaloo.org [192.168.192.2]) by h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8202FD; Sat, 18 May 2002 09:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CE682D7.5040102@dccnet.com> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 09:35:35 -0700 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Upgrade XFree86-3.3.6? to XFree86-4.X References: <1021731694.84212.15.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG S. Roberts wrote: > Hi, > I have XFree86-3.3.6 installed on my system. After posting questions > about my colour / graphics problems with a new monitor, numerous > respondents advised me to upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2. > > Simple question here is, how do I upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2? Please bear > with me here - yes I've read the handbook, yes, I've read The Complete > FreeBSD, there's nowhere is either of the two that addresses upgrading > from a previous XFree86-3.3.6 to a later version. > > The handbook mentions installing a later version after completing the > base installation and then proceeding to install the newer version via > the ports .., that's it. Nothing about what happens to the original > files, or what to do before attempting the install. The XFree86 site > doesn't mention any procedures for doing either. When upgrading here are the the things that I consider. Was the installation of XFree86-3.3.6 installed as a package or as a distro? a) As a package the installation can rely on the packages database(/var/db/pkg) (you can simply use pkg_delete to uninstall the old version) b) As a distro the you have no handy reference to what files/libraries/binaries are part of the original installation. (This will change with 4.6 RELEASE as XFree86-4 will be installed as a package and not a distro when chosen from sysinstall, as I understand the testing notes) As my situation was b) I chose to 1)Remove all installed packages. 2)rm -rf /usr/X11R6/* 3)Add "XFREE86_VERSION=4" to /etc/make.conf 4)Install XFree86-4 from the ports 5)Reinstall required ports making portupgrade one of the first to install for easier management. > I'm not hoping to make a big deal out of this, so I'd just like to find > out if this procedure is documented anywhere, and where it might be. None that I could find either. Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message