Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:34:51 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the wikitest upgrade instructions Message-ID: <456D543B.1010505@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20061129055044.GA53225@mail.scottro.net> References: <20061129055044.GA53225@mail.scottro.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig822553C9271E2998FCE723BF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Scott Robbins wrote: > As I mentioned the other day, I went through the upgrade procedure and > found it relatively painless. (The dependency loop that I ran into, I > later realized, was because my eye had skipped the step to pkgdb -F > after installing xorg-libraries. Actually, I added this line to the wiki yesterday :-) > I've now been playing with it a few times, seeing how many corners I ca= n > cut and still have it work. As mentioned, rather than installing the > xorg-drivers port, I'm getting by with mouse, keyboard and mga for my > video card. However, I notice that whichever of these I first install > installs xorg-server as well, but doesn't remove the old xorg-server. > I'm guessing that might have happened with the first installation as > well. =20 All drivers depend on xorg-server. As I said, I'd rather ship something complete (or give the opportunity to install only the necessary bits) and remove what's not needed afterwards. > I wonder if it might work better (I'm going to experiment with this too= , > in the next few days) to do the portupgrade -R xorg-server before doing= > the xorg-drivers. =20 My mistake there, just reverse them. > I also found that I could, after doing the rest of it, skip the make > install of xorg, which seems to install anything that was missed. :) Ditto. > At any rate, at least on these PCBSD test installs, it installs > xorg-server but leaves the old one in there. Doing portupgrade -R > xorg-server simply ignores most of the packages and skips the xorg-6.9 > package.=20 This xorg-6.9 package must be removed at the very beginning, I'm adding this to the wiki as well. Thanks. > Lastly, I repeat that I've been doing this on a PCBSD installation, > as it gives me a running BSD with X in about 20 minutes, so it's quite > possible that they're doing something slightly different than a normal > FreeBSD installation. Well, it doesn't seem that much different. Thanks for these notes. This is much appreciated. --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --------------enig822553C9271E2998FCE723BF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFbVRAMxEkbVFH3PQRCsEIAJ9qg7PSmnigmIVaXOqyrSt7bGigvgCdHbV7 d+E8wXw+TzIYR0SX6WXS09A= =BbH4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig822553C9271E2998FCE723BF--
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