the wikitest upgrade instructions

[Scott Robbins]

As I mentioned the other day, I went through the upgrade procedure and
found it relatively painless.  (The dependency loop that I ran into, I
later realized, was because my eye had skipped the step to pkgdb -F
after installing xorg-libraries.

I've now been playing with it a few times, seeing how many corners I can
cut and still have it work.  As mentioned, rather than installing the
xorg-drivers port, I'm getting by with mouse, keyboard and mga for my
video card.  However, I notice that whichever of these I first install
installs xorg-server as well, but doesn't remove the old xorg-server.
I'm guessing that might have happened with the first installation as
well.  

I wonder if it might work better (I'm going to experiment with this too,
in the next few days) to do the portupgrade -R xorg-server before doing
the xorg-drivers.  

I also found that I could, after doing the rest of it, skip the make
install of xorg, which seems to install anything that was missed.  :)

At any rate, at least on these PCBSD test installs, it installs
xorg-server but leaves the old one in there.  Doing portupgrade -R
xorg-server simply ignores most of the packages and skips the xorg-6.9
package. 

Lastly, I repeat that I've been doing this on a PCBSD installation,
as it gives me a running BSD with X in about 20 minutes, so it's quite
possible that they're doing something slightly different than a normal
FreeBSD installation.


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Scott Robbins

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