Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 21:11, Eric Anholt wrote:
> OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. 
> No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time.  X.Org has
> been made the default X distribution on -current.  Other versions of
> FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade
> by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf.
> 
> To upgrade, you must remove your XFree86 ports and install the xorg
> ports.  It couldn't be done with portupgrade, unfortunately, because we
> are keeping the XFree86 ports around.  To upgrade:
> 
> pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-*
> cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install
> pkgdb -F
> 
> If you want to keep the old XFree86 on -current, simply set
> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 in make.conf
> 
> I am currently working on updating -current's sysinstall for X.Org. 
> Until then it will be broken.

Thank you for your great work!

I just switched to X.org using the described method, and everything
worked beautifully. 

This is FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #89: Wed Jul 21 02:43:17 CEST 2004, with the
experimental gcc3.4-as-system-compiler patches.

Thank you,
Andreas