Installing FreeBSD-6.2 & Xorg-7.2

[John Nielsen]

On Tuesday 12 June 2007 12:47:59 pm Gerard wrote:
> On June 12, 2007 at 10:47AM John Nielsen wrote:
> > That should work fine, as long as you remember to run mergebase.sh on the
> > new system. It's counterintuitive and won't have much work to do, but it
> > will do useful things like create the /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local symlink
> > and change some defaults in /etc so (e.g.) rc.d and periodic scripts
> > won't run twice.
> >
> > If it's just your ports you're trying to refresh and don't have any
> > worries about your base system, you could also try something like this:
> >
> > 0) Back up your entire system. Also make a note of what packages you have
> > installed (pkg_info > /root/pkg-list.txt, for example).
> >
> > 1) Delete ALL ports from your system. I find it's most efficient to do
> > something like this:
> > 	a) make backups, esp of files in /usr/local/etc
> > 	b) # pkg_info | awk -F ' ' '{print $1}' | xargs pkg_delete -f
> > 	c) review remaining files under /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local, if any
> > 	d) # rm -r /usr/X11R6/* /usr/local/*
> >
> > 2) Update your base system. csup, buildworld, etc.
> >
> > 3) Update your ports tree. portsnap, etc.
> >
> > 4) Run mergebase.sh
> > 	#
> >
> > 5) Reinstall everything you want installed.
> >
> > Have fun,
>
> Having way too much fun. The system crashed again, causing me to get
> really annoyed. I decided I had, had enough and totally erased the
> HD's after coping any config files I would need to another PC first. I
> am in the process of reformatting the two 72G HDs now.
>
> Now, just so I get this straight.
>
> 1) I do a minimal install of FBSD.
> 2) Update the ports, in my case using portsnap.
> 3) Update the system files
> 4) Do a BuildWorld with custom kernel installation
> 5) Run: sh /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh
> 6) Start the installation of Xorg-7.2 and other program.
>
> I am assuming that I should have the VAR as stated in the "UPDATING"
> file set prior to to actually attempting to update the system. After
> it is completed I can remove it. Is that correct?

Looks good, except I don't know what you mean by VAR. If you're talking about 
the XORG_UPGRADE environment variable you shouldn't need it as long as you 
run mergebase before trying to install xorg.

> Well, the next few days should be fun!

Indeed. I have an older laptop that's chugging through the upgrade now..

JN