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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:07:00 +0000
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: the wikitest upgrade instructions
Message-ID:  <456D9404.5010201@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061129135838.GA57763@mail.scottro.net>
References:  <20061129055044.GA53225@mail.scottro.net>	<456D543B.1010505@FreeBSD.org> <20061129135838.GA57763@mail.scottro.net>

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Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:34:51AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> 
>>> 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.)
> 
> ARGH--never mind the above part.  I just reread the latest wiki
> instructions and it's perfectly clear that upgrading xorg-server-6.9 is
> a separate step.  My apologies.  

x11/xorg is actually a meta-port, so removing it won't remove anything.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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