Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:05:49 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Up grading ports, Xorg et all Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161648250.97785@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912160202470.2594@oceanpt.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912160202470.2594@oceanpt.safeport.com>
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, doug@safeport.com wrote: > I messed up a KDE 3.5.10 trying to install firefox3 so I thought I > would attempt to upgrade using portupgrade and/or portmaster. After a > lot of work I think I am back to if you use KDE the only way to > upgrade is to start afresh. > > At this point I thought I would try Xorg 7.4. I did a "pkg_delete -a" > and "pkg_add -r xorg". This was a complete disaster. How, specifically? > After trying all the configuration options, tips etc in the handbook, > google et all, I decided my 3+ year old thinkpad was just not > supported so I composed a "can anyone help me" email to questions. > This went off into the ether through user error. > > While I was waiting for help I thought I would try installing Xorg from an > iso image. The resulting install worked out of the box using the last > variation of xorf.conf I had tried. I am left to assume that what I got from > pkg_add does not fit together. The symptoms described in your earlier mail sound like it worked but was different from what you expected. > Obviously my earlier attempts to get an xorg.conf file worked fine. > The code did not. As a thought to the Xorg, I do not think the > unbundling makes things more stable. Xfree86 was bad enough (so I > thought) with its couple of dozen (or so) components. Starting from > scratch I now have 204 ports and two versions of python just to run > twm. Given that some number of the 204 component are under active > development using pkg_add seems out of the question. The second > version of python came in because I could not find xdm in the > 7.2-release disk1 iso so I did a pkg_add on xdm. This sounds like you are mixing old and new packages. portupgrade (and probably also portmaster) can use packages for you. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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