Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:43:03 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Up grading ports, Xorg et all Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912160202470.2594@oceanpt.safeport.com>
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I messed up a KDE 3.5.10 trying to install firefox3 so I thought I would attempt to upgrade using portupgrade and/or portmaster. After a lot of work I think I am back to if you use KDE the only way to upgrade is to start afresh. At this point I thought I would try Xorg 7.4. I did a "pkg_delete -a" and "pkg_add -r xorg". This was a complete disaster. After trying all the configuration options, tips etc in the handbook, google et all, I decided my 3+ year old thinkpad was just not supported so I composed a "can anyone help me" email to questions. This went off into the ether through user error. While I was waiting for help I thought I would try installing Xorg from an iso image. The resulting install worked out of the box using the last variation of xorf.conf I had tried. I am left to assume that what I got from pkg_add does not fit together. Obviously my earlier attempts to get an xorg.conf file worked fine. The code did not. As a thought to the Xorg, I do not think the unbundling makes things more stable. Xfree86 was bad enough (so I thought) with its couple of dozen (or so) components. Starting from scratch I now have 204 ports and two versions of python just to run twm. Given that some number of the 204 component are under active development using pkg_add seems out of the question. The second version of python came in because I could not find xdm in the 7.2-release disk1 iso so I did a pkg_add on xdm. Aside from venting a bit, my message is the Xorg set from a release iso probably has a better chance of working if you run into problems. I do not own or have access to any systems that could build Xorg or KDE in less than a month so I am clueless if building from source would have worked any better. _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com support@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277
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