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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:09:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is the best way to upgrade X-Windows?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.4.10.10001250907380.9088-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
In-Reply-To: <388CBEC2.92DBC95F@nwlink.com>

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I don't think this will work.  Under 3.4-STABLE, I upgraded X by following
the output of pkg_version -c

cd /usr/ports/<where X lives>
make
pkg_delete -f XFree86-3.3.3.1
make install

I got burned by PAM, but that's because I didn't run mergemaster.
Pkg_version rules!


Eric Wayte, DBA
Univ. of Central Florida
ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:06:10 -0800
> From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: What is the best way to upgrade X-Windows?
> 
> Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 08:50:41AM -0700, Damien Tougas wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > > or, can I just do a pkg_delete -f on the X-Windows port and install a new
> > > version without having to re-build everything else?
> >
> > Yup, you can do it this way, (although I usually don't bother with a
> > pkg_delete); using /stand/sysinstall to install it will work just as well.
> 
> X is not a package,  it's a distribution, so you can't do pkg_delete with it.
> I think you can simply install a new version over the old.
> 
> >
> >
> > No need to rebuild current running apps.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Jonathan Chen
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