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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:10:11 -0700
From:      Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion
Message-ID:  <1090620611.2748.61.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <1090618937.65834.1517.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> <1090618937.65834.1517.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:42, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:11, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > 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:
> > 
> > pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-*
> > cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install
> > pkgdb -F
> > 
> > If you want to keep the old XFree86 on -current, simply set
> > X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 in make.conf
> > 
> > I am currently working on updating -current's sysinstall for X.Org. 
> > Until then it will be broken.
> 
> Please, please, please add the relevant bits to /usr/ports/UPDATING (and
> any relevant porter bits to /usr/ports/CHANGES).  Thanks, and thanks for
> all your effort on getting this done.

Oops, fixed now.  Thanks.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org




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