the wikitest upgrade instructions
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 29 01:35:47 PST 2006
Scott Robbins wrote:
> 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.
Actually, I added this line to the wiki yesterday :-)
> 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.
All drivers depend on xorg-server. As I said, I'd rather ship something
complete (or give the opportunity to install only the necessary bits)
and remove what's not needed afterwards.
> 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.
My mistake there, just reverse them.
> 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. :)
Ditto.
> 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.
This xorg-6.9 package must be removed at the very beginning, I'm adding
this to the wiki as well. Thanks.
> 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.
Well, it doesn't seem that much different. Thanks for these notes. This
is much appreciated.
--
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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