From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 9:36:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glow.binity.net (glow.binity.net [213.84.201.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA0E37B41C for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:36:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from vscan (glow.dt1.binity.net [172.23.18.1]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914DE55BF; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:35:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from there (silver.dt1.binity.net [172.23.3.20]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DB11B54D3; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:35:41 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Walter Hop Message-Id: <200203281821.26677@silver.dt1.binity.net> To: "Hartmann, O." , "Gary W. Swearingen" Subject: Re: XFree86-4.2 port is a horror!! Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:35:59 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: mpd , References: <20020328172433.K15922-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20020328172433.K15922-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by glow.binity.net (amavis-perl-11-sky2) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to Hartmann, O., Thursday 28 March 2002 17:30] > In fact, the fact, that other ports use the same installation paths like > X11 (like xv, several graphical libraries) prevents me from deinstalling > the XFree port. It is a hard work deinstalling and then reinstalling > all the needed stuff ... I've been trying various approaches to upgrading the XFree86-4.1.0 megaport to 4.2.0. Three ago I got sick and tired of it and forcefully de-installed XFree86-4.1.0_12,1 with "pkg_delete -f". pkgdb was whining about a few dependency problems with "imake" so I got rid of that as well. After removing X, I just did a "make install" on the new the XFree86 4.2.0 ports (starting off with -libraries, then -clients, then the rest I believe). It all builded nicely and after a reboot X was back. After a few days of fairly intensive X-ing I have yet to see an application break or coredump due to the replacement. When replacing 4.1.0 with 4.2.0 I'd say "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" ;) -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24290808 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message