Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:39:38 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: the wikitest upgrade instructions Message-ID: <20061129133938.GA57604@mail.scottro.net> In-Reply-To: <456D543B.1010505@FreeBSD.org> References: <20061129055044.GA53225@mail.scottro.net> <456D543B.1010505@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:34:51AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote: > Scott Robbins wrote: > > As I mentioned the other day, I went through the upgrade procedure and > > found it relatively painless. (The dependency loop that I ran into, I > > later realized, was because my eye had skipped the step to pkgdb -F > > after installing xorg-libraries. > > Actually, I added this line to the wiki yesterday :-) Ah, that would explain it. :) > However, I notice that whichever of these I first install > > installs xorg-server as well, but doesn't remove the old xorg-server. > > I'm guessing that might have happened with the first installation as > > well. > > All drivers depend on xorg-server. As I said, I'd rather ship something > complete (or give the opportunity to install only the necessary bits) > and remove what's not needed afterwards. Definitely agreed. > > > I wonder if it might work better (I'm going to experiment with this too, > > in the next few days) to do the portupgrade -R xorg-server before doing > > the xorg-drivers. > > My mistake there, just reverse them. > > At any rate, at least on these PCBSD test installs, it installs > > xorg-server but leaves the old one in there. Doing portupgrade -R > > xorg-server simply ignores most of the packages and skips the xorg-6.9 > > package. > > This xorg-6.9 package must be removed at the very beginning, I'm adding > this to the wiki as well. Thanks. I'm slightly confused here. Will removing the xorg-6.9 package also remove that xorg-server-6.9 or should that be done with portupgrade in the order I mentioned, doing it before adding mouse, vid or keyboard driver? (I'll have the answer for myself, but not till tonight or tomorrow when I try my latest and greatest plan.) > > > Lastly, I repeat that I've been doing this on a PCBSD installation, > > as it gives me a running BSD with X in about 20 minutes, so it's quite > > possible that they're doing something slightly different than a normal > > FreeBSD installation. > > Well, it doesn't seem that much different. Thanks for these notes. This > is much appreciated. No, I don't think it is. It doesn't install the printserver, nestserver or docs but aside from that, it's really excellent for testing this. On a moderately old machine (1 gig AMD XP processor, 512 Megs DDR ram) it installs a working system with X in about twenty minutes. As this is just for testing the upgrade, I choose all the simpler options, so after a few clicks in the beginning, I can let it install and walk away. I recommend it for anyone who wants a working system with X-6.9 for testing. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: I wish dating was like slaying. You know, simple, direct, stake through the heart, no muss, no fuss.
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