Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:24:36 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net> To: Ryan Hinton <rwh4s@virginia.edu> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to X11 bleeding edge and back Message-ID: <1194589476.84551.15.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <4733D9EB.2020205@virginia.edu> References: <4733D9EB.2020205@virginia.edu>
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--=-qF8H5luljb5LpFGir0UE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 22:54 -0500, Ryan Hinton wrote: > I'm having trouble with X11 on my hardware when I switch to the console a= nd back (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D11269). Apparently t= here have been some recent changes to the Xorg git source that may fix my p= roblem. I would like to try these changes and then fall back to the -stabl= e port at some point (immediately if bad things happen, eventually if my pr= oblem is fixed). >=20 > In the past, building and installing an application outside of the ports = system caused problems when I tried to install the (-stable) port later on.= I may be doing something wrong; please let me know or show me where I can= learn. In general, is there a good way in general to update a port to its= bleeding edge (within or outside the FreeBSD ports system) and then jump b= ack to -stable later on? >=20 > In this case, I believe X11 is a particularly large and complicated port.= Is there a good way to update the FreeBSD X11 port to the latest git sour= ce within the ports system? =20 >=20 > Thank you for your time and help! Xorg git head is a tiny bit tricky right now as the xserver and mesa have to be updated in lock step. Individual drivers however seem to be fairly safe. I wouldn't recommend attempting the server update unless you are fairly comfortable with being able to fix things. If you just want to try an updated video driver, you will need devel/xorg-macros and autotools pkgs (you probably already have those installed). You will also need to install git and clone the driver(s) tree. Then just run autogen.sh and make all install. Reverting to the port should also be pretty straight forward, just reinstall the port and overwrite the git version. As always, YMMV... robert. > --- > Ryan Hinton > iobass@email.com >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net> 2Hip Networks --=-qF8H5luljb5LpFGir0UE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHM/0jM4TrQ4qfROMRApoFAJwKhPXg3yUEPzFO3nFuLL4+0hi4lQCfUZNa ZZUADX7gwYemP30FH1+tsIw= =1N2c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-qF8H5luljb5LpFGir0UE--
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