XFree86-4 -> X.org, ports

Kirill Ponomarew krion at voodoo.oberon.net
Wed Aug 11 09:47:35 PDT 2004


Hi,

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:42:05PM +0200, Joacim Thomassen wrote:
> I've followed the UPDATING instructions for moving over to X.org from
> XFree86-4.x, but still I'm left with a lot of stale dependencies in the
> ports database. Mostly dependencies to XFree86.
> 
> running pkgdb -F , here are the 2 first dependencies:
> 
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 489
> packages found (-1 +3) (...)... done]
> Stale dependency: Xaw3d-1.5 -> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_7
> (x11/XFree86-4-libraries):
> New dependency? (? to help): 
> Skipped.
> Stale dependency: aalib-1.4.r5_1 -> imake-4.3.0_2 (devel/imake-4):
> imake-6.7.0_2 (score:61%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] 
> 
> ("snapshot" of running pkgdb -aF):
> 
> Skipped. (running in non-interactive mode; specify -i to ask)
> Stale dependency: dvipsk-tetex-5.92b_1 -> imake-4.3.0_2 (devel/imake-4):
> Skipped. (running in non-interactive mode; specify -i to ask)
> Stale dependency: dvipsk-tetex-5.92b_1 -> XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_7
> (x11/XFree86-4-libraries):
> Skipped. (running in non-interactive mode; specify -i to ask)
> Stale dependency: eel2-2.6.2 -> XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0
> (x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable):
> 
> 
> But I have no XFree86 packages installed:
> 
> pkg_info |grep XFree86 # results in only this:
> dri-4.3.0,1         OpenGL hardware acceleration drivers for XFree86

It should be actually version 5.0.2, please cvsup again.

> I've also followed the gnome instructions in UPDATING for
> x11-toolkits/libwnck and x11/libxklavier.
> 
> My last cvsup was done yesterday.
> 
> uname -a
> ... 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #2: Sun Feb  8 15:21:49 CET 2004 ... i386
> 
> What have I missed? (The suggested method for moving to x.org in the
> freebsd mailinglists doesn't seem to help either).
> 
> Any suggestions at all on how I could get rid of all the XFree86
> dependencies are highly appreciated. =)
> 
> (I have attached the content of my /var/db/pkg directory,
> var.db.pkg_dir.txt)

You can also migrate to xorg with:

portupgrade -o xorg-libraries -f XFree-4-libraries

but you need to update every installed XFree package this way,
so the update method describe in ports/UPDATING is more
convenient.

-Kirill
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