Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:00:14 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Noah <admin2@enabled.com> Subject: Re: xsnow not building Message-ID: <200402221000.14476.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040222174152.M60856@enabled.com> References: <20040222171405.M82310@enabled.com> <200402220932.45565.kstewart@owt.com> <20040222174152.M60856@enabled.com>
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On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:44 am, Noah wrote: > O > > > You have a mixed combo. You have part of 3.3.6 installed and 4.2. > > You need a clean XFree86-4 for anything to work. Do you have an > > "XFREE86_VERSION" in your /etc/make.conf. I can't think of anyway > > you would have both 3.3.6 and 4.2 installed unless you did. > > > > It also sounds like you might have an out of date port system. At > > this point, you might as well upgrade to version XFree86-4.3.0. I > > would think about getting a working 4.2 before updating. There are > > some problems with make on the older systems. Port maintainers are > > using new make options that don't work on the pre-4.9 systems. > > > > A current 4.9-stable will be different than what you are using now. > > thanks Kent, > > I understand what I need to do now. > well my /usr/ports have teh 4.3.0 version now. so I dont know how I > can install 4.2 core distribution hehehe - I didn't either but it happens :). I created an alias called pkgrep that does a "pkg_info | grep $1". There are a number of things that are easier with an alias. You don't make as many typo's and wonder what happened. You need to cvsup ports-all with a "tag=.". The easy way is to update your ports, run "portsdb -uU" to get a new set of indexs and get used to using portupgrade. It makes being consistant a lot easier :). > > also I am cvsup'ing the stable files every night. > > how can I guarantee that I am receiving the 4.9-stable files? > > this is the entry I am using: > > --- snip --- > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > --- snip --- > > should that work - how can I verify that its the 4.9 kernel and > system files I am receiving? Ah, you can cvsup as many times as you want and nothing changes until you do a buildworld, build[install]kernel, reboot to single user mode and installworld. The exact sequence is always in your /usr/src/UPDATING. It sounds like you have most of the pieces but they just aren't quite connected. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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