On 17-Nov-98 Ed Cogburn wrote: > Mario Bertrand wrote: >> >> >> > With my experience, I don't believe the latest X11 stuff in slink is >> > broken anymore, but its been broken down into a bunch of smaller debs. >> > I scrubbed my system free of all the old X11 stuff (except config files) >> > and loaded the slink X11 suff, and everything is now working. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Ed C. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi, >> >> What do you mean by old X11 stuff? How do we know wich packages to delete? >> It >> is those obsoletes packages in dselect menu when we update? >> > > > The old X11 packaging included a 2meg 'xbase' deb file. This package > has been split into smaller packages. xterm, for example, is in its own > package. The font packages changed their name to 'xfonts-###' instead > of 'xfnt###'. > When I originally went to dselect after the download, the new X11 > packages were at the top of the display in the new packages section. > This was how I could tell them apart from the ones already installed > (plus the version number). Since there didn't seem to be any dependency > conflicts, ie, 'xfntbase' didn't conflict with 'xfonts-base'*, I decided > to scroll down and purge my system of all the old packages that I could, > except for the /etc/X11 config files. This probably wasn't necessary. > I don't know if they will show up in the obsolete section, I never > checked this. I suspect dpkg would have deleted the old ones first. > > > * A dependency conflict should of happened according to the package > info (Conflicts: xfntbase), but I seem to remember dselect allowing me > to select the new files without popping up a dependency conflict > screen. My memory has deteriorated, however, so I may be remembering > wrong. > > > -- > Ed C. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null >
Thanks Ed, I have an almost working slink. At least I have Xwindows working properly for the moment :-). Let's have a bit of sleep now... ---------------------------------------- Message envoyé le 16-Nov-98 à 23:27:30 Par Mario Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------
