Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:43:23 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: scottro@nyc.rr.com Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Successful upgrade, following wikitest instructions Message-ID: <456C04BB.7050902@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20061128030341.GA35329@mail.scottro.net> References: <20061128030341.GA35329@mail.scottro.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Scott Robbins wrote: > I had a sacrificial box, so I decided to try the xorg upgrade. The only > problem I ran into was after following the step of make install in xorg, > it began running pkg_config and giving the message that there was a > dependency loop with xorg-libs. Ah yes, seen a cyclic dependency with libX11 and xorg-libraries. Had to fix it with pkgdb -F. Is that the one you're talking about? > I ctl-C'd out of it. It was hanging on registering xorg-7.1, however, > looking at /var/db/pkg showed xorg-7.1 there. I ran pkgdb -F which gave > me the chance to fix it. I was so euphoric that it had worked I > neglected to write down my choices, thinking my memory would serve, > which I fear, it didn't. There were a few conflicts (it didn't remove > xorg-server-6.9, so I chose, during pkgdb -F to unregister it.) Hum, portupgrade xorg-server should have done that. > At any rate, everything seems to be working. I used a PCBSD > installation, because I was in a hurry to try this, and PCBSD gives me a > working X environment in about 20 minutes. > > I followed the instructions completely--I think, however, that I could > have gotten away with, rather than the entire xorg-drivers port to go > through and just install what I needed, mouse, keyboard, vesa for > emergency and xf86-video-mga. Yeah, but I wanted to give a safe path to upgrade. It's easier to remove what you don't need once you made sure everything works. > At any rate, I just wanted to report success, and thank you folks for > all your hard work and your guide to upgrading, which worked beautifully > for me. When I have a bit of time, I think I'm going to dump this drive > to a spare, in case it doesn't work, and try it on my main workstation. Thanks for trying this out. Always happy to read about success :-) -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFbATAMxEkbVFH3PQRCpnJAJ4h62dE7rxNr8fcc3fhewI1JWCh0wCfWFoE dbVS/QHtrgowxKl6lKgs5W4= =sv8o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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