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Subject: Re: Instructions for xorg 7.2 upgrade using portmaster
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On Sun, 27 May 2007 01:55:37 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Please note that if you can do it, the _best_ way to use portmaster to
> do the upgrade is still to run 'pkg_delete -f xorg*' followed by
> 'portmaster x11/xorg',

Rebuilding Xorg itself is no big deal. After running into problems with
portmanager, I deleted not just the xorg* ports, but everthing they
depend on too. Putting back the lot only took a couple of hours - only
a few percent of the total time to rebuild all the version-bumped
ports.