On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 09:31, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> > I just upgrade XFree86 from 4.2 to 4.3 using portupgrade on 2 different 
> > machines.

> That statement doesn't make sense. Portupgrade upgrades pors, not the
> system. So you can't upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 with portupgrade. If you
> actually upgraded the system, how did you do it? Did you then use
> portupgrade to upgrade all the ports you had installed? If not, that
> may be part of the problem.
He's talking about XFree86 4.2 not BSD 4.2.  Portupgrade is definitely
the way to go.

Also, XFree86 4.3 installs a new xinitrc which loads twm by default. If
you want gnome-session or KDE you have to edit xinitrc to launch that
session.

> 
> Generally, when upgrading across a release, you want to deinstall the
> ports in large chunks - all of them is best - and then reinstall the
> ports from the new ports in the system.
> 
>       <mike


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