Re: Xorg 7.2 update

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:15:21 -0700
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 09:47:47AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 1st of all, thanks for providing 7.2 in the tree !
> 
> I had another little problem with xorg. While you did an upgrade
> installation, I nuked all of my ports and started over.
> 
> I discovered, that an installation by compiling all myself failed
> very early.
> 
> Its easily to reproduce by installing on a vanilla empty system.
> 
> Sorry I didn't save the error message.
> 
> Therefore I needed to pkg_add -r everything 1st, after that I
> used portupgrade to be up to date.
> 

I also nuked /usr/X11R6, /usr/local, /var/db/pkg, and /var/db/ports.
Instead of pkg_add -r, if you do "setenv XORG_UPGRADE yes", everything
proceeds as expected.  Yes, it seems weird that one needs to set XORG_UPGRADE
on a seemingly clean system.

-- 
Steve
Received on Mon May 28 2007 - 14:17:17 UTC

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