On Monday, 9. May 2005 01:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok I understand the principle but am not exactly clear about the practice. > Would you mind telling me exactly what I need to do!! Forgive me I am > coming back to FreeBsd after an absence of many years ! I currently have > xorg in my ports collection which was cvsupped last week. Do I need to > delete that and donload the sources from xorg and make install clean those > -- or what?
No, you just have to update your *installed* xorg packages to the version currently in ports. My guess is that you have xorg-6.7.0 installed (since this is what comes with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE), check with pkg_info | grep xorg . We recommend using sysutils/portupgrade for doing updates. It can perform upgrades from binary packages, too, with the -P option (and setting the PACKAGESITE environment variable as shown in one of my previous replies). And finally a bit of general advice: If you install a Release of FreeBSD which is a couple of months old, do not expect the packages that come with it to work smoothly with ports installed from a fresh cvsup-checkout - in many cases they won't, as you've just found out. Either stick to the binary packages (and/or the snapshot of the ports-collection) which come with a particular FreeBSD Release OR don't install *any* binary packages on installation except those you need to checkout a fresh ports-tree (i.e.: cvsup, preferably cvsup-without-gui since this won't pull in X) and then start building your system from ports OR point sysinstall/pkg_add to the -stable packages on the freebsd ftp mirrors (see URL in one of my previous replies) and use those. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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