Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:35:59 +0100 From: Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86-4.2 port is a horror!! Message-ID: <200203281821.26677@silver.dt1.binity.net> In-Reply-To: <20020328172433.K15922-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> References: <20020328172433.K15922-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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[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 <walter@binity.com> | +31 6 24290808 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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