From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 7:13:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0AF237B401 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 07:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 9911F5FB; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:13:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:13:25 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Erik Rothwell Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to XFree86 4.0.2 via the Ports Message-ID: <20010210091324.A45179@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Erik Rothwell , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3A852965.B30E8FBB@callgtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A852965.B30E8FBB@callgtn.com>; from erothwell@callgtn.com on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 06:43:34AM -0500 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erik Rothwell (erothwell@callgtn.com) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I think I'm going to give the new XFree86 a shot... and so, I'm going to > install it from the ports collection, but, what should I do to prepare > for the install? Should I uninstall the previous version of X by > pkg_delete ? Will this mess up my existing X programs such as GNOME etc > etc? > > Basically, I suppose I'm inquiring as to how easy this install is going > to be... seemless transition, and so on ;-) The normal advice I had seen regarding upgrading X is to just install over the old version. However, I didn't have a lot of luck doing that when I upgraded from 3.3 to 4. Among other things, I think the install had difficulties with the symbolic links that XFree-3.3 created. I prepared for my upgrade by copying the X11R6 directory to X11R6.old; then uninstalling everything that lives in /usr/X11R6/bin, and reinstalling it all again. Hopefully there is a better procedure, but this seemed to be the cleanest, if not the quickest, way to upgrade. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message