Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:22:57 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Anderson <ciscoaix@yahoo.com> To: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading to Xorg 7.2 Message-ID: <304158.64464.qm@web90613.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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? 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. 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? 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? 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* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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