Guide to x.org update?

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Mon Jun 28 09:30:17 PDT 2004


On Monday 28 June 2004 11:25 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2004 11:15 am, Chris wrote:
> > On Monday 28 June 2004 11:10 am, Your Name wrote:
> > > I'd like to upgrade to the x.org series from XFree86.
> > > Is there any simple guide to how to do this? There's
> > > nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING. I see that some people
> > > have reported general success, but I'm worried that
> > > I'll miss something or forget about rebuilding
> > > something in the three days it'll take to rebuild
> > > every X dependent
> > > port on my system.
> > >
> > > Jen
> >
> > Just update your ports tree, and run portupgrade to bring all your
> > installed ports up to date.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Chris
>
> I was unaware that FreeBSD switched to X.org from XFree86.  Did we
> switch or is there name confusion?  Are both offered in the newer
> ports?
>
> Andrew Gould

Hmm, after looking:

/usr/ports/x11/xorg
This is a metaport for all the X.Org packages available in the ports tree.

WWW: http://www.x.org/

- Eric Anholt
anholt at FreeBSD.org



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Best regards,
Chris

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