Avoiding upgrade to xorg 7.2

Bram Moolenaar Bram at moolenaar.net
Fri Jun 15 18:55:37 UTC 2007


Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> Can you not kick off an reinstall everything last think on a Friday and 
> have it ready for you on Monday? (you'll need to set BATCH=yes so you 
> don't get asked to confirm config options). I usually do this myself 
> whenever I upgrade (usually every 3 months or so).

I'm working 7 days a week...

> In most cases you can keep working while the upgrade is happening (e.g I 
> switch to enlightenment while Gnome is rebuilding etc). However in the 
> case of this Xorg 7.2 upgrade and change from X11BASE to LOCALBASE I 
> couldn't really do this, but I think this is not typical (I used a mac 
> powerbook whilst my Freebsd box was rebuilding... glad to be back in 
> Freebsd now!).

I think upgrading X11 is best done while X11 is not running.  There is
also the risc that something fails and it takes N hours to make it work
again.

Ideally I would have two computers, one to keep working on and one to
upgrade.  And then switch between the two.  But I have only one.

> Note that it's not just Freebsd that is doing modular Xorg 7.x - Gentoo 
> did it a while back.

I fully understand the need to move to Xorg 7.2.  But for such a big
move I would actually expect an OS release.

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