Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/36258: new XFree86-4 port errors Message-ID: <200203242030.g2OKU3L22123@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/36258; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Vladimir Chukharev <chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/36258: new XFree86-4 port errors Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:21:54 -0500 On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:25:28PM +0200, Vladimir Chukharev wrote: > I had upgraded XFree86 at the moment, when the old megaport 4.2.0 > was in place. Yesterday I decided to give a try to the new metaport > (this is a box, were I can do some tests). After reboot X did not start. > Well, now I am trying to find what is wrong. I think the maintainer > will find it much faster, though. You need to use a tool like portupgrade to do this. What happened is that when you typed "make install" the ports collection found some dependencies already installed and skipped installing the new ones. So you need "portupgrade -uR XFree86" to do this properly. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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