Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:15:10 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: corbesero@cs.moravian.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading Xfree86 and /stand Message-ID: <20021014221510.GA61025@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <200210142046.g9EKkXF23185@catwoman.cs.moravian.edu> References: <200210142046.g9EKkXF23185@catwoman.cs.moravian.edu>
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:46:33PM -0400, flash wrote:
>
> 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.
The best method is to delete XFree86-3.3.6 and all the packages that
depend on it, then build and install XFree86-4.2.0 and then rebuild
and install all the dependent packages again.
First make good backups of /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11, just in case it
all goes horribly wrong and you need to revert your changes.
Next generate a list of all of the ports that depend on XFree86-3:
pkg_info -R XFree86-\* > /tmp/x-packages
vi /tmp/x-packages [ delete any extraneous stuff and any
mention of XFree86-3.3.6 specific
packages]
Then to do the deletion. It's easy if you've got the portupgrade
package installed:
pkg_deinstall -r XFree86-\*
Then you can change the /etc/make.conf setting to say you're now going
to use XFree86-4.2.x:
XFREE86_VERSION= 4
Then re-install all the dependency packages:
xargs portinstall -RrN < /tmp/x-packages
This will involve quite a lot of compilation, especially if you've got
much in the way of gnome or kde stuff installed.
Then you'll have to generate a new XF86Config file and redo things
like the xdm(1) setup and all the other bits of customization you
require. Almost all of the X configuration files -- with the glaring
exception of /etc/X11/XF86Config -- have moved from /etc/X11 to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 in the latest versions.
> 2) How do I upgrade all the files in /stand. Only sysinstall gets
> upgraded when I follow the handbook instructions.
All of the binary files in /stand are actually hard linked together.
So the new sysinstall binary you've generated can be linked to sh,
gzip, ppp and so forth:
cd /stand
for f in `file -- * | grep ELF | grep -v sysinstall | sed -e 's,:.*$,,'` ;
do
rm -- $f
ln -- sysinstall $f
done
(All of the -- stuff is because of the '-sh' program, which tends to
get confused with command options other wise.) On my machine that
ends up with a link count of 32.
Cheers,
Matthew
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