Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 14:53:15 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@dccnet.com>, ecerejo@zapo.net, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrade XFree86-3.3.6? to XFree86-4.X Message-ID: <3CE6CD4B.7080800@owt.com> References: <1021731694.84212.15.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <3CE682D7.5040102@dccnet.com> <1021753098.84212.163.camel@Demon.Strobe.org>
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S. Roberts wrote: > Thank you all for your replies! > >>From what I've gathered here, there's definitely some consideration to > this after all. > > XFree86-3.3.6 was installed during installation via /stand/sysinstall, > so that means that its there as a distribution (right?). Does this > really mean performing: > 1] rm -rf on /usr/XFree84* > 2] Re-build all ports that depend on XFree86 > > Say it ain't so! What you are thinking about here is equivalent to running a FreeBSD-4.x userland and a FreeBSD-5.0 kernel. Kent > > Stacey > > On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 17:35, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: > >> >>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. >> >> >> -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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