Fwd: Upgrading X11 port

Siraj Shaikh siraj.shaikh at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 04:33:47 PST 2007


Thanks Roland

I am trying it currently. If it doesnt work, I will return :)

Thanks

Siraj

On 24/11/2007, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:22:36PM +0000, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > With regards to the following post, I just wanted to clarify this.
> >
> > I am going to do this now. Get the ports tree, using
> >
> > portsnap fetch
> >
> > and
> >
> > portsnap extract
> >
> > and then
> >
> > portsnap update
> >
> > Then, when I install xorg, would that be the 7.3 version? or would it
> > still be 6.9, and I would have to update it using the guideliness
> > given in UPDATING?
>
> If you install xorg from a fresh ports tree now, you'll get 7.3.
>
> As the name implies, the UPDATING file is about updating already
> installed ports.
>
>
> Roland
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