From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 09:35:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B8716A417 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:35:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr (smtp1-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C241643CAB for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:35:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (unknown [82.233.2.192]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3579B4FD; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:35:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E352411442; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:35:42 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 91PrtqP++C28; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:35:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from [193.120.13.130] (cream.xbsd.org [193.120.13.130]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A9E11410; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:35:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <456D543B.1010505@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:34:51 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061126) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Robbins References: <20061129055044.GA53225@mail.scottro.net> In-Reply-To: <20061129055044.GA53225@mail.scottro.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig822553C9271E2998FCE723BF" Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the wikitest upgrade instructions X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:35:47 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig822553C9271E2998FCE723BF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Scott Robbins wrote: > As I mentioned the other day, I went through the upgrade procedure and > found it relatively painless. (The dependency loop that I ran into, I > later realized, was because my eye had skipped the step to pkgdb -F > after installing xorg-libraries. Actually, I added this line to the wiki yesterday :-) > I've now been playing with it a few times, seeing how many corners I ca= n > cut and still have it work. As mentioned, rather than installing the > xorg-drivers port, I'm getting by with mouse, keyboard and mga for my > video card. However, I notice that whichever of these I first install > installs xorg-server as well, but doesn't remove the old xorg-server. > I'm guessing that might have happened with the first installation as > well. =20 All drivers depend on xorg-server. As I said, I'd rather ship something complete (or give the opportunity to install only the necessary bits) and remove what's not needed afterwards. > I wonder if it might work better (I'm going to experiment with this too= , > in the next few days) to do the portupgrade -R xorg-server before doing= > the xorg-drivers. =20 My mistake there, just reverse them. > I also found that I could, after doing the rest of it, skip the make > install of xorg, which seems to install anything that was missed. :) Ditto. > At any rate, at least on these PCBSD test installs, it installs > xorg-server but leaves the old one in there. Doing portupgrade -R > xorg-server simply ignores most of the packages and skips the xorg-6.9 > package.=20 This xorg-6.9 package must be removed at the very beginning, I'm adding this to the wiki as well. Thanks. > Lastly, I repeat that I've been doing this on a PCBSD installation, > as it gives me a running BSD with X in about 20 minutes, so it's quite > possible that they're doing something slightly different than a normal > FreeBSD installation. Well, it doesn't seem that much different. Thanks for these notes. This is much appreciated. --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --------------enig822553C9271E2998FCE723BF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFbVRAMxEkbVFH3PQRCsEIAJ9qg7PSmnigmIVaXOqyrSt7bGigvgCdHbV7 d+E8wXw+TzIYR0SX6WXS09A= =BbH4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig822553C9271E2998FCE723BF--