On Friday 22 June 2007 20:04:21 Blah Blatz wrote: > I thought that I followed the directions in UPDATING regarding Xorg 7.2, > but, uh, I guess I didn't. My computer now seems beyond repair, with > respect to X. I'm strongly considering giving up, wiping the hard drive, > reinstalling FreeBSD, and restoring my personal stuff from backups. > > So, my questions: > > If I do that, and install the latest xorg on a completely fresh FreeBSD > box: > > Do I have to set XORG_UPGRADE (or whatever it's called)?
yes. > > Should I still use portupgrade-devel instead of portupgrade? I would rather > just use portupgrade, if I can. i did, just to be safe for now. > > Do I have to follow any of the other directions in UPDATING regarding > this... stuff? > > Or can I just do a normal old "cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg; make install" > without any of the special new exciting xorg crap in UPDATING? > > I have googled about this, but have found seemingly conflicting statements, > which is why I am explicitly asking. > > Thank you in advance for any help. just set XORG_UPGRADE, and go into the folder and 'make install clean'. however, i did myself a favor, and did 'make BATCH=yes package-recursive', and saved them for later. (man ports) cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
