Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:30:12 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: XFree86-4.1 appears to be broken Message-ID: <20010606233012.A5967@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <3B1C8066.91917B89@cvzoom.net>; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:47:02AM -0400 References: <20010604065030.A20441@johncoop> <20010604222651.A9057@moo.holy.cow> <3B1C8066.91917B89@cvzoom.net>
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so, Donn Miller shared this in my lifetime...
> parv wrote:
>
> > short answer, john, is, for me, the fresh cvs tree of XFree installed
> > w/o a single problem, which identified (in make logs) as
> > 4.0.99.9* ... good enough for me...
> >
> > ...and now the whole story...
> >
> > something weird happened to me this morning... for some reason i
> > blasted away my XFree86 4.0.3 version + assorted programs.
>
> Don't do that. What you should do is
>
> cd /usr
> mv X11R6 X11R6.old
> {cd to the directory containing xc and}
> make install install.man
yes that's what i generally do before installing new software &
deinstlling old one. but i was getting low on disk space...
> Then, what you could do is something like:
>
> find /usr/X11R6 | xargs chflags schg
>
> This will protect your freshly installed XFree86 from being
> overwritten. Then, cp all your old files over with cp -R; chflags will
> deny you from over-writing the freshly installed files. After you're
> finished, just do
>
> chflags -R noschg /usr/X11R6
why didn't i think of it first!
>
> See, my experience has been that you can't just install a new version of
> XFree86 over the existing one, because it always caused the "make
> install" to fail.
>
i must be lucky then!
- parv
--
so, do you like word games or scrabble?
- parv
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