Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:06:48 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What is the best way to upgrade X-Windows? Message-ID: <200001250106.UAA06327@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <388CBEC2.92DBC95F@nwlink.com>
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On 24-Jan-00 R Joseph Wright wrote: > 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. Actually, it's sort of both: # dir /var/db/pkg/XFree86-3.3.5 total 203 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 34 Oct 23 16:52 +COMMENT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 192931 Oct 23 16:52 +CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 460 Oct 23 16:52 +DESC -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 139 Dec 29 08:28 +REQUIRED_BY # cat /usr/ports/x11/XFree86/pkg/COMMENT X11R6.3/XFree86 core distribution -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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