I agree. I would very much like to be running the F beta in its entirety,
and with Debian I do not know how to go about doing that and being
positive I am not breaking anything in the process. I realize that the
owner of this package does not plan to release any of the beta versions as
a Debian package while there is no source code, but I for one would VERY
much appreciate some sort of instruction on what all is neccessary in
order to take out the stock Debian XFree and replace it with one of the
beta versions without breaking anything in the process. I don't care if
the process is manual or automatic, I just want to be able to do it. Under
Slackware you just had to rip out the old and put in the new, and that was
basically it, but under Debian, with the Debianized XFree86, not even
knowing the extent really of how it differs from the standard XFree86, I
don't want to experiment with it. Perhaps just using dpkg to remove
XFree86 without removing any of the packages depend on it, and then
installing the beta version the normal way by just untarring it? That will
mean that the conf files and stuff will be in the non-debianized locations
and all, but what I don't know is whether or not this would break anything
else. Insight on this matter would be very much appreciated. Every time
I've brought this up in the past everybody just says to use the server
from the beta package, which I already am, but I would like to go beyond
that, and run the whole beta package. It seems like in this respect,
Debian is limiting my possibilities instead of making it easier to do what
I want with my system.
Shawn Asmussen
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Randall Shutt wrote:
> On Aug 29, 8:15pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> > Subject: Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?
> > If one needs a server that is not included (or the version included is
> > inadequate) in the current non-Beta XFree86, you need only get the
> > _server_ (not the support files), unpack it into /usr/local, and
> > modify the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver to point to it.
>
> Well, what of those that want to try the whole beta? Its so radically
> different, everything that I had in /etc/X11 got stomped on
> my /etc/X11 is no more. Alot of config stuff is different. So what Im asking
> is, how best could I have done this as to not completely fuck up the debian
> package database (I was unable to dpkg -r alot of stuff due to fear of also
> removing subsidiary packages that depended on X11). So, now my main question
> is, when they DO come out with a .deb or a .tar.gz with debian rules, how will
> I best go about not totally stomping all over everything again, and also not
> having unaccounted for files? Thanks
>
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> Randall Shutt
> RaveNet Systems, Inc.
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