From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 17 00:05:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D89D1065693 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:05:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF14C8FC26 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBH05n4C098034; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:05:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id nBH05nHX098031; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:05:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:05:49 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: doug@safeport.com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:05:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Up grading ports, Xorg et all X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:05:51 -0000 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