Re: [Fink-users] xfree86 update problems

[Eric Hoch]

hi Michael, 
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:12:44 -0500, Michael Bovee wrote:
> Could someone please point me, or remind me how, to (manually?) 
> remove all of xfree86 and start over, without trashing the other 
> xfree-dependent packages along the way? Do I manually remove the 
> .deb files for instance? Do I need to stick with xfree version 
> 4.2.x or should it be possible to go with 4.3?

It should be possible to get 4.3. No you needn't remove the deb 
files and to delete all the xfree packages via fink take a look at 
points 8.11 and 8.12 in the faq 
. 
This should do the trick. You can safely do this while the other 
packages depending on xfree are on your machine. If you donnot 
build a package during removing and new building of xfree that 
depends on it the shouldn't care if currently a x is installed or 
not. 

To be absolutely sure that no X is on your machine you can after 
the fink commands to these ones:
sudo rm -rf /etc/X11/ [Enter]
sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6/ [Enter]
sudo rm -rf /Applications/XDarwin(or X11).app [Enter]

If you get errors saying this files aren't on your Mac then fink 
did remove them already.

After this do a fink selfupdate to be absolutely sure to have the 
latest xfree86 package descreption and afterwards do a fink install 
xfree(86) and the work should be done. 

HTH,
Eric Hoch

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[Fink-users] xfree86 update problems

[Michael Bovee]

Hi all,
I'm trying to get a working xfree86 again after upgrading to the 
10.2gcc3.3 unstable tree.  (I'm running Package manager version: 
0.17.4, Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs on a G3 PowerBook, MacOSX 
10.2.8)

I needed to switch to this tree in order to install the latest qt3 and 
a couple other things required by a new piece of software written by a 
research collaborator.

All my original (300 or so) packages that do not depend on xfree86 seem 
to have been successfully updated or rebuilt through selfupdate and 
update-all, but xfree86 is now broken. I basically got lost in the 
lingo of whether I needed only base, or rootless, or threaded, or 
whatever, to 'satisfy virtual dependencies' so I tried to force-remove 
all 4.2.x (and I moved /private/etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 by renaming 
them) and just installed version 4.3.0-16 along with the corresponding 
shlibs, and now 4.3 shows as current. All 4.2.x packages are in the 
'archived' state. But when I try to 'fink update-all' using 
FinkCommander, that sucker churns for about a day on several dozen 
packages that depend on xfree86 and need to be updated, and then 
finally FC bails because it cannot 'batch install' the older 4.2.x 
xfree86 packages that it automatically chose as also needing to be 
updated.

Could someone please point me, or remind me how, to (manually?) remove 
all of xfree86 and start over, without trashing the other 
xfree-dependent packages along the way? Do I manually remove the .deb 
files for instance? Do I need to stick with xfree version 4.2.x or 
should it be possible to go with 4.3?

Thanks for any suggestions. Sorry for the ramble.
--Michael


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