Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:04:15 +0200 From: Daniel Lang <dl@leo.org> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion Message-ID: <20040723220415.GA63266@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> References: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin>
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Hi Eric, Eric Anholt wrote on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:11:09PM -0700: > OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. > No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time. X.Org has > been made the default X distribution on -current. Other versions of > FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade > by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf. > > To upgrade, you must remove your XFree86 ports and install the xorg > ports. It couldn't be done with portupgrade, unfortunately, because we > are keeping the XFree86 ports around. To upgrade: [..] Why does "keeping the XFree86 ports around" prevent one from using portupgrade? I can specify a different port to upgrade with with -o, like (simplified): portupgrade -o x11/xorg XFree86-4.3.0_X or are there other reasons why this is not possible? Cheers, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock - "Do you love yourself ?" - "Yes!" (Isar 12) - Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 2600 8122 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/
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