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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
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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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