Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 14:29:24 -0400 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> To: qa@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Binary Upgrade 4.5R-->4.6RC2 (X3.3.6-->X4.2.0) Message-ID: <20020601142924.5e6fdffa.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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No problems, mostly for the qa@ archive: I figured that the binary upgrading process needed testing in light of a version change on XFree86. I started with fresh 4.5-RELEASE install with a configured X3.3.6 for my particular hardware and made sure things were functional. Then, I removed /usr/src so I could choose the "All" Distribution during the binary upgrade. Sysinstall will complain if it detects a /usr/src directory. I also elected to install a new ports collection during the binary upgrade. The binary upgrade to 4.6-RC2 was performed with the usual smoothness. I added the wrapper package so that XFree86 could be ran as an ordinary user before leaving sysinstall and rebooting. I moved the old /etc/XF86Config to /etc/XF86Config.336 and ran xf86config to generate an new /etc/XF86Config file. XFree86 would then start using "startx" so xvidtune was ran to generate information for new modelines and those were added to the /etc/XF86Config file in their appropriate place. Restarted X and all was well! I suppose /etc/make.conf needs to specify: XFREE86_VERSION= 4 just to be safe. Bruce Mah mentioned that "the more recent ports collection infrastructure will assume this (the default changed about a month or so ago), so this shouldn't be needed. It can't hurt though." I'm sure the possibility exists that ports previously built under X3.3.6 might have problems and need to be upgraded or rebuilt under X4.2.0. I didn't carry the testing that far. I'm pleased this went so well! Randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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