Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:31:42 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What is the best way to upgrade X-Windows? Message-ID: <388CFCFE.CE962D6@nwlink.com> References: <200001250106.UAA06327@server.baldwin.cx>
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John Baldwin wrote: > 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 Maybe it shows up as a package when it's built from a port. On my system, doing "pkg_info |less" doesn't show XFree86 at all. That may be because it's not built from a port, I installed it from the cd as part of the base 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/ -- R Joseph Wright *I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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