Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:47:23 -0500 From: <postmaster@netfang.net> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is XFree86 4.3.0 going to be in 4.8? -nt- Message-ID: <E18rRYS-0006nE-00@smtp.parrett.net> In-Reply-To: <1047056245.616.14.camel@leguin> References: <723002BB-4E42-11D7-90DE-000A9566C46A@we.lc.ehu.es> <DAV46tVHXZ6nuHWkDCF000191d7@hotmail.com> <1046852244.613.149.camel@leguin> <E18r72s-0005jb-00@smtp.parrett.net> <1047056245.616.14.camel@leguin>
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** Reply to message from Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> on 07 Mar 2003 08:57:25 -0800 > > Is it necessary to deinstall XFree86 4.2 before installing the 4.3 patches? > > It should work just fine, as long as you have both of the patches. I ended up having to run pkg_delete on all of the 4.2 XFree-86 packages before I was able to build 4.3. But I suppose that could be because I don't know the right way to install an update. Here's what I did: 1) Download both patch files. 2) Run the -11 patch from /usr/ports. 3) Run the make patch from the /usr/ports/Mk. 4) Run 'make' from /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4. The only thing that resulted from step 4 was a few console messages indicating that everything was already done. 5) Run 'make clean' from /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4. 6) Run 'make' again. Same thing. 7) Run pkg_delete on all XFree86 packages found using 'ls -l /var/db/pkg/XF*' (I had to use -f on one of them). 8) Run 'make' again. This time, things started building. 9) Run 'make install'. Which finished building everything and installed everything. 10) Run 'xf86config'. 11) Run 'startx'. Success! Most imporantly, I can use the mouse again (with 4.2, any movement of the mouse caused the mouse cursor to disappear off the bottom of the screen). I use cvsup to update both ports and source and the last time I ran cvsup in ports was a day or two ago, which is why I was able to use the -11 patch. Would the build and installation have worked properly if I had simply run 'make install' instead of 'make' in step 4? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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