Guide to x.org update?

[Chris]

On Monday 28 June 2004 11:31 am, Your Name wrote:
> --- Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> 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.
>
> I don't want to be thick, but what are the exact steps
> involved in this? My installed ports are already up to
> date, Id just want to rebuild the ones that depend on
> some version of X. So I guess I'd first install the
> xorg meta-port, then delete--what?, to make sure I get
> all the XFree86 versions?--and then do what to rebuild
> properly everything with depends?
>
> Thanks. I will wait if there is going to be some easy
> method in the future.
>

Well - if I understand this, you want to use X.org in place of XFree86 - if 
this is correct, I would assume you install eht X.org meta-port as you 
mentioned.

I don't know if X.org "needs" anything from XFree, so I can't answer that. The 
next thing is simply update the ports tree (that inturn updates the X.org 
meta when needed) then run portupgrade after the ports ttree update.

See the man page for portupgrade for the parms you want. I myself use -arR
Once you have run portupgrade, and if by chance the meta-port did get updated, 
portupgrade will bring that up to the current build for FreeBSD.

I may have left out some steps, but this is the jist of it.

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Best regards,
Chris

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