From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 13:11:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCB614D8F for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:11:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip104.r2.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.104]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18129 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <388CBEC2.92DBC95F@nwlink.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:06:10 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the best way to upgrade X-Windows? References: <20000124085041.A1693@tougas.net> <20000125091357.E2267@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 08:50:41AM -0700, Damien Tougas wrote: > > [...] > > or, can I just do a pkg_delete -f on the X-Windows port and install a new > > version without having to re-build everything else? > > Yup, you can do it this way, (although I usually don't bother with a > pkg_delete); using /stand/sysinstall to install it will work just as well. X is not a package, it's a distribution, so you can't do pkg_delete with it. I think you can simply install a new version over the old. > > > No need to rebuild current running apps. > > Cheers. > > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- R Joseph Wright *I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message