Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:21:52 +0200 From: Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion Message-ID: <1090653712.99471.2.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> In-Reply-To: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> References: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 21:11, Eric Anholt wrote: > OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. > No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time. X.Org has > been made the default X distribution on -current. Other versions of > FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade > by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf. > > To upgrade, you must remove your XFree86 ports and install the xorg > ports. It couldn't be done with portupgrade, unfortunately, because we > are keeping the XFree86 ports around. To upgrade: > > pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-* > cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install > pkgdb -F > > If you want to keep the old XFree86 on -current, simply set > X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 in make.conf > > I am currently working on updating -current's sysinstall for X.Org. > Until then it will be broken. Thank you for your great work! I just switched to X.org using the described method, and everything worked beautifully. This is FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #89: Wed Jul 21 02:43:17 CEST 2004, with the experimental gcc3.4-as-system-compiler patches. Thank you, Andreas [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBAg4QYucd7Ow1ygwRAkOtAJ9rIh8ofgbNQhcSbSXwHNC3SOOFGACdHelA YQPpe9Xh1HY0C2RhPhMO2Us= =W9Ch -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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