From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 9 15:31: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6BD37B404 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 15:31:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from 208-58-224-6.s6.tnt1.clmb.md.dialup.rcn.com ([208.58.224.6] helo=ljgms2k) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #10) id 16ZgxW-0000qu-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2002 18:31:07 -0500 Message-ID: <000501c1b1c1$ee6d4eb0$06e03ad0@ljgms2k> From: "leegold" To: Subject: upgrading X has been nasty Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 18:30:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Do you think you could take a look at my x problem on the questions mail list? I broke my X trying to upgrade. Here's the questions mailing list date and subject. Feb 9 leegold nasty x problem Thanks. Any help appreciated. Imo, I've really been busting chops trying to figure out what deinstall does (I don't even have a man pg for it but see it mentioned as a command(?), what delete_pkg does, what setnev FORCE_PKG_REGISTER does (an env. variable?), what the heck was going w/the ports, then when it's installed it called apparently a pakage(?) It's way complicated imo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message