,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:53:58 -0800) ----* | In general when upgrading, you take your chances. If a port upgrade | fails, you should fall back to what worked.
So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port is brought in -- and it disables my system. What is my way of action? Right -- install the old packages, taken from an FTP site (is there a way to get the previous "source", that is all the ports/*/*/Makefile files? Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?) When I install the old packages, I can no longer rebuild and install new (say `csup'ed on 2009-03-01) port components, as one whole -- I can only do it selectively, excluding from the upgrade most X-dependent things. That sucks and will lead to a problem earlier or later. | Trying to partial rebuild ports versus rebuilding from scratch after | a major update is just asking for problems. Exactly -- but I haven't done this -- and I have big problems with the new X. | There probably needs to be a more incremental approach when | upgrading major ports. For example, I updated my system a piece at | a time over the last several months, and had no significant problems | with the offical x11 upgrade as the changes were small. I've been rebuilding and reinstalling ports every weekend, for about 1.5 years -- with no problem until the last one, when the new X was in. | And last, many of the video drivers have little if any support. If | you have something other then ati/intel/nivdia, you should expect | problems. Input drivers are in a similar state. Both my systems I've been reporting problems with are using the `nv' driver: $ grep /modules/drivers /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nv_drv.so One system (Dell Latitude) could not be made operational with the new X at all; the other has garbage in the windows and the "captive mouse pointer" -- both issues new in the new X. -- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
