I guess I misread.

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Blah Blatz wrote:
> I thought that I followed the directions in UPDATING regarding Xorg 7.2, but, uh, I guess I didn't.  My computer now seems beyond repair, with respect to X.  I'm strongly considering giving up, wiping the hard drive, reinstalling FreeBSD, and restoring my personal stuff from backups.
> 
> So, my questions:
> 
> If I do that, and install the latest xorg on a completely fresh FreeBSD box:
> 
> Do I have to set XORG_UPGRADE (or whatever it's called)?
> 
> Should I still use portupgrade-devel instead of portupgrade? I would rather just use portupgrade, if I can.
> 
> Do I have to follow any of the other directions in UPDATING regarding this... stuff?
> 
> Or can I just do a normal old "cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg; make install" without any of the special new exciting xorg crap in UPDATING?

If you use a minimal install, without any ports, you can just start with
creating the link: /usr/X11R6 /usr/local.

Then there is not reason to use portupgrade (other than comfort) or follow any
of the instructions in UPDATING.