From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 06:47:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2CB16A417 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:47:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: from web90613.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web90613.mail.mud.yahoo.com [216.252.100.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5273D13C4AA for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:47:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 21784 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Nov 2007 06:47:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=eFYEvtOqYm+F8nqqbbjlA93qd1BoxxiuyMxsN5OyVQ4ncoe6rkuL5XLlrCx/cQu1FPHdBbWTMzXCMpAURBkETPotNnpq0yUGJKlhZIqrVVxE9ttPH//QuMrTOuC33aJO3F9IjsHR6x2fanrwOQThnRKsQUPtr9g4bCh7OI6UtQg=; X-YMail-OSG: ZNOMbBoVM1kJ1vflnlfTmQMwHXPMmD8cIPi0EgZQI8hZ.urLPN2vXJryiPWoUFjOiTWP3TYwQ6ZDfN1NQkAqos5mB_ImXBxeivD0HgutdPpE.hNInMY- Received: from [71.36.205.115] by web90613.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:47:36 PST Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:47:36 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Anderson To: Daniel Bye , amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20071110163823.GB4118@torus.slightlystrange.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <729132.21017.qm@web90613.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Upgrading to Xorg 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:47:47 -0000 --- Daniel Bye wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:22:57PM -0800, Kris > Anderson wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I was looking at the UPDATING for xorg > > and I am currious about something. > > > > Why are those of us doing fresh downloads of the > OS > > having to do the upgrade to 7.2? I see that 6.9 is > > installed, why not just make 7.2 the default? > > When doing a fresh install, try to avoid installing > any extra packages. > It's better to wait and install from ports, to > ensure you get the latest > released versions. The packages bundled with each > release are out of date > pretty quickly - as the ports maintainers continue > to upgrade and improve > what's available, so the static snapshot of the > ports tree that gets > installed will be more and more obsolete. I usually > don't even install > ports any more from the install media - I prefer to > use portsnap to get > the latest snapshot, and then crack on with > installing whatever it is I > need. > > > > > In UPDATING > > 20070519: > > AFFECTS: users of Xorg > > AUTHOR: kris@FreeBSD.org > > > > Welcome, fearless user! You are about to embark > > upon a mystical > > journey to the world of xorg 7.2. > > > > This upgrade procedure is for users of > portupgrade. > > Users of other > > upgrade tools should contact the author for the > > corresponding upgrade > > method for that tool. > > > > It is recommended that you run the xorg 7.2 > upgrade > > inside a script(1) > > session. This way, if something goes wrong, you > > will have hopefully > > saved enough information for the developers to > debug > > the problem. > > Make sure you choose a filesystem with lots of > space > > for the script > > output. > > > > # script xorg-upgrade > > > > You may wish to set BATCH=yes in the environment > to > > avoid interactive > > dialogue boxes. > > > > > > In # script xorg-upgrade, why doesn't the file > tell us > > where to get the script and what other files that > > might be needed, or where to go for additional > > guidance on this step? Please update the UPDATING > to > > reflect where we're go to get this script. Thank > you > > very much. > > script(1) in this instance refers to the Unix > command script, which > will save all subsequent terminal IO in the file > named (in this example) > xorg-upgrade. It is simply a way to record what > happened next, in case > something goes wrong, etc. man script for more > details. Actually I meant xorg-upgrade (the argument after script), I did a locate and a find but the script wasn't around to be found, or perhaps I didn't do something correctly to tell me where the script is suppose to be hiding. Again, a direct solution from UPDATING would be nice as to where this script is suppose to come from. > > > > If xorg 6.9 is removed (via pgk_delete > > /var/db/pkg/xorg-* along with any complaints about > > dependencies) do I still need to go through all > the > > steps outlined in UPDATING or do I just go in to > > ports/x11/xorg (or where ever the meta gizmo is at > > these days) and do a make install? > > If you have removed anything and everything to do > with Xorg, then you > are effectively going to be doing a clean install - > so you should just > be able to portinstall xorg. It worked this way for > me on my laptop > without any hitches. However, you must be certain > you don't have any old > X related ports still lurking, or it could blow up. > > > > > I would have tried pkg_add xorg but I happen to > notice > > that it was then trying to fetch 6.2. But then > perhaps > > an enviroment variable might needed to be set. > > #pkg_add -r xorg > > Fetching > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-6.2-release/Latest/xorg.tbz... > > Done. > > > > Is it really fetching 6.2 or is there just a typo > > someplace and it should have read 7.2? > > No, it's downloading a prebuilt package suitable for > FreeBSD 6.2 (I guess > you're on 6.2?) > > > > > Well that's enough inquiring for now, hopefully I > can > > get the thing going. I'm trying to use the GD > library > > for PHP and it just wants to go get X stuff. > *sigh* > > Yes, it is after all a graphics library! ;-) > > HTH > > Dan > > -- Got the GD portion of PHP4 to install, had to remove all X type libraries and such, well the ones that I could figure out belonged to X. PHP4 GD then pulled back in what ever components of X it needed. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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