From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 14:26:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADAA37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A2B43E9E for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 1CD4753E6; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B3A53DC; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:25:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: corbesero@cs.moravian.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Xfree86 and /stand In-Reply-To: <200210142046.g9EKkXF23185@catwoman.cs.moravian.edu> Message-ID: <20021014141355.Q21341-100000@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-14, flash scribbled: # I am tracking stable, and I have two questions about upgrading via cvsup # and the {build,install}{world,kernel} method. # # 1) How do I upgrade Xfree86 to 4.2.x? My XFree is still 3.3.6. There are two ways you can install XFree86 4.2.x on your machine, one is by downloading the binaries for 4.2.0 plus the update binary package for 4.2.1 from XFree86.org: 4.2.0 for FreeBSD 4.x: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/FreeBSD-4.x/ 4.2.1 Update for FreeBSD 4.x (requires 4.2.0): ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.1/binaries/FreeBSD-4.x/ Just pull down all of the files for 4.2.0, read the Install file for installation directions and notes, configure your video card and make sure it works, then pull down the files for the 4.2.1 update, and then follow the directions the Install file. The second option is to install it using Ports or Packages, though it seems that some of the ports still carry the 4.2.0 version tag. Most likely, you will need to reinstall all ports and packages that depend on XFree86 so that it picks up the new version and libraries. The latest version of FreeBSD will default to XFree86 4.x... you may want to check the /etc/defaults/make.conf file to see what it thinks the default XFree86 version is. Change it if necessary. # 2) How do I upgrade all the files in /stand. Only sysinstall gets # upgraded when I follow the handbook instructions. All of the other files in /stand are hard-linked to the sysinstall binary according to the following excerpt from the Handbook: For the sake of completeness, you may want to update the files in /stand as well. These files consist of hard links to the /stand/sysinstall binary. This binary should be statically linked, so that it can work when no other filesystems (and in particular /usr) have been mounted. # cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall # make all install HTH -- Linh Pham lplist@closedsrc.org Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message