From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 18 14:27:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F26237B400 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:27:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 7B9199B19; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:27:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:27:27 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Vladimir Savichev , Will Andrews , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4.2.0 install issues Message-ID: <20020318222727.GW53073@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: Garance A Drosihn , Vladimir Savichev , Will Andrews , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020318172158.GA22743@ariel.phys.wesleyan.edu> <20020318184700.GN53073@squall.waterspout.com> <20020318200748.GA39841@ariel.phys.wesleyan.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:25:02PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 3:07 PM -0500 3/18/02, Vladimir Savichev wrote: > >thanks for reply, actually I managed to install XF-4.2.0 > >from the ports back in January and did > >portupgrade -rv XFree86 > >so I ended up having my XFree86-4 megaport deleted without > >having a new one, don't ask me why portupgrade did it to > >me. > > The big complication here is that some of us did install > the earlier megaport, and this new meta-port does not work > well in that case. There is probably some validity to the > argument that we are "on our own" if we installed that > earlier megaport, particularly those who tracked it down > and installed it *after* the very short period of time that > it was actually in the ports tree. No, that's not supposed to make any difference. However, to prove this to myself, I've found a machine with an older version of the megaport installed and have started a "portupgrade -R XFree86" on it. I'll report some more on this when I get there. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message