From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 24 12:30:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5EE37B422 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2OKU3L22123; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203242030.g2OKU3L22123@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Will Andrews Subject: Re: ports/36258: new XFree86-4 port errors Reply-To: Will Andrews Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/36258; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Will Andrews To: Vladimir Chukharev 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