Upgrading to Xorg 7.2

[Kris Anderson]

--- Daniel Bye <dan at slightlystrange.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:22:57PM -0800, Kris
> Anderson wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I was looking at the UPDATING for xorg
> > and I am currious about something.
> > 
> > Why are those of us doing fresh downloads of the
> OS
> > having to do the upgrade to 7.2? I see that 6.9 is
> > installed, why not just make 7.2 the default?
> 
> When doing a fresh install, try to avoid installing
> any extra packages.
> It's better to wait and install from ports, to
> ensure you get the latest
> released versions. The packages bundled with each
> release are out of date
> pretty quickly - as the ports maintainers continue
> to upgrade and improve
> what's available, so the static snapshot of the
> ports tree that gets
> installed will be more and more obsolete. I usually
> don't even install
> ports any more from the install media - I prefer to
> use portsnap to get 
> the latest snapshot, and then crack on with
> installing whatever it is I
> need.
> 
> > 
> > In UPDATING
> > 20070519:
> >   AFFECTS: users of Xorg
> >   AUTHOR: kris at FreeBSD.org
> > 
> >   Welcome, fearless user!  You are about to embark
> > upon a mystical
> >   journey to the world of xorg 7.2.
> > 
> >   This upgrade procedure is for users of
> portupgrade. 
> > Users of other
> >   upgrade tools should contact the author for the
> > corresponding upgrade
> >   method for that tool.
> > 
> >   It is recommended that you run the xorg 7.2
> upgrade
> > inside a script(1)
> >   session.  This way, if something goes wrong, you
> > will have hopefully
> >   saved enough information for the developers to
> debug
> > the problem.
> >   Make sure you choose a filesystem with lots of
> space
> > for the script
> >   output.
> > 
> >   # script xorg-upgrade
> > 
> >   You may wish to set BATCH=yes in the environment
> to
> > avoid interactive
> >   dialogue boxes.
> > 
> > 
> > In # script xorg-upgrade, why doesn't the file
> tell us
> > where to get the script and what other files that
> > might be needed, or where to go for additional
> > guidance on this step? Please update the UPDATING
> to
> > reflect where we're go to get this script. Thank
> you
> > very much.
> 
> script(1) in this instance refers to the Unix
> command script, which
> will save all subsequent terminal IO in the file
> named (in this example)
> xorg-upgrade. It is simply a way to record what
> happened next, in case
> something goes wrong, etc.  man script for more
> details. 
Actually I meant xorg-upgrade (the argument after
script), I did a locate and a find but the script
wasn't around to be found, or perhaps I didn't do
something correctly to tell me where the script is
suppose to be hiding. Again, a direct solution from
UPDATING would be nice as to where this script is
suppose to come from.
> > 
> > If xorg 6.9 is removed (via pgk_delete
> > /var/db/pkg/xorg-* along with any complaints about
> > dependencies) do I still need to go through all
> the
> > steps outlined in UPDATING or do I just go in to
> > ports/x11/xorg (or where ever the meta gizmo is at
> > these days) and do a make install?
> 
> If you have removed anything and everything to do
> with Xorg, then you
> are effectively going to be doing a clean install -
> so you should just
> be able to portinstall xorg. It worked this way for
> me on my laptop
> without any hitches. However, you must be certain
> you don't have any old
> X related ports still lurking, or it could blow up.
> 
> > 
> > I would have tried pkg_add xorg but I happen to
> notice
> > that it was then trying to fetch 6.2. But then
> perhaps
> > an enviroment variable might needed to be set.
> > #pkg_add -r xorg
> > Fetching
> >
>
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-6.2-release/Latest/xorg.tbz...
> > Done.
> > 
> > Is it really fetching 6.2 or is there just a typo
> > someplace and it should have read 7.2?
> 
> No, it's downloading a prebuilt package suitable for
> FreeBSD 6.2 (I guess
> you're on 6.2?)
> 
> > 
> > Well that's enough inquiring for now, hopefully I
> can
> > get the thing going. I'm trying to use the GD
> library
> > for PHP and it just wants to go get X stuff.
> *sigh*
> 
> Yes, it is after all a graphics library! ;-)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Dan
> 
> -- 
Got the GD portion of PHP4 to install, had to remove
all X type libraries and such, well the ones that I
could figure out belonged to X. PHP4 GD then pulled
back in what ever components of X it needed.


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