xorg-7.4_2 error (was xorg 7.4 questions)

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, doug at safeport.com wrote:

>> After updating ports, 'portsdb -Fu' and 'portversion -vL=' will show what's 
>> outdated.  (That's with portupgrade installed.  Some would have you believe 
>> it's second in evil only to HAL.  Maybe true, but it works.)
>> 
>> And then 'portupgrade -r portname' (or 'portupgrade -ar', if you like) 
>> should upgrade the outdated stuff and everything that depends on it. And -P 
>> or -PP might help by retrieving packages, although I haven't tried that in 
>> years.
>
> This includes libc? man 2 libc

Doh, I was thinking of ports, not system.  Some ports have code to check 
for system version requirements, and I'd expect packages to do the same 
thing.  But they're moving targets, and developers and porters can't 
check all the combinations.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA