From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 6:17:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5860F14F47 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 06:17:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) Ident [ewayte] by pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B813530; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:09:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:09:40 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Wayte To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the best way to upgrade X-Windows? In-Reply-To: <388CBEC2.92DBC95F@nwlink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ 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 > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > R Joseph Wright > > *I merely took the energy it takes to pout > and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message