On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, d...@safeport.com wrote:
I messed up a KDE 3.5.10 trying to install firefox3 so I thought I
would attempt to upgrade using portupgrade and/or portmaster. After a
lot of work I think I am back to if you use KDE the only way to
upgrade is to start afresh.
At this point I thought I would try Xorg 7.4. I did a "pkg_delete -a"
and "pkg_add -r xorg". This was a complete disaster.
How, specifically?
After trying all the configuration options, tips etc in the handbook,
google et all, I decided my 3+ year old thinkpad was just not
supported so I composed a "can anyone help me" email to questions.
This went off into the ether through user error.
While I was waiting for help I thought I would try installing Xorg from an
iso image. The resulting install worked out of the box using the last
variation of xorf.conf I had tried. I am left to assume that what I got from
pkg_add does not fit together.
The symptoms described in your earlier mail sound like it worked but was
different from what you expected.
Obviously my earlier attempts to get an xorg.conf file worked fine.
The code did not. As a thought to the Xorg, I do not think the
unbundling makes things more stable. Xfree86 was bad enough (so I
thought) with its couple of dozen (or so) components. Starting from
scratch I now have 204 ports and two versions of python just to run
twm. Given that some number of the 204 component are under active
development using pkg_add seems out of the question. The second
version of python came in because I could not find xdm in the
7.2-release disk1 iso so I did a pkg_add on xdm.
This sounds like you are mixing old and new packages. portupgrade (and
probably also portmaster) can use packages for you.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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