HEADSUP: X.Org conversion
Andreas Kohn
andreas.kohn at gmx.net
Sat Jul 24 00:21:55 PDT 2004
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 21:11, Eric Anholt wrote:
> OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree.
> No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time. X.Org has
> been made the default X distribution on -current. Other versions of
> FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade
> by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf.
>
> To upgrade, you must remove your XFree86 ports and install the xorg
> ports. It couldn't be done with portupgrade, unfortunately, because we
> are keeping the XFree86 ports around. To upgrade:
>
> pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-*
> cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install
> pkgdb -F
>
> If you want to keep the old XFree86 on -current, simply set
> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 in make.conf
>
> I am currently working on updating -current's sysinstall for X.Org.
> Until then it will be broken.
Thank you for your great work!
I just switched to X.org using the described method, and everything
worked beautifully.
This is FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #89: Wed Jul 21 02:43:17 CEST 2004, with the
experimental gcc3.4-as-system-compiler patches.
Thank you,
Andreas
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