Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 00:33:44 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg upgrade & portmaster Message-ID: <20070522003344.1d1eb610@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <44k5v198yh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <302F75DC2739FB43B236373398A8C59929F4@saturnus.intra.socruel.nu> <44k5v198yh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:13:10 -0400 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > "FreeBSD-Ports" <FreeBSD-Ports@socruel.nu> writes: > > > After reading /usr/ports/UPDATING I thought well just try what it > > says, so I issued the command setenv XORG_UPGRADE yes as root and > > then did a portmaster xorg-libraries. This update went fine. > > That's *not* "just what it says." It says that the directions are for > portupgrade only, and for other tools you need to get an upgrade path > from the author of the tool. Furthermore, in the message to which you > are following up, the author of portmanager said that his advice was > not to use portmanager for this upgrade yet, and if you wanted to use > it anyway, to start by removing all your ports and building them over. s/portmanager/portmaster/
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