On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> >
> > >I think you can install 4.0.2 straight on top of 3.3.6.
> > >Use tar to make a copy of the old X11R6 directory just in
> > >case 4.0.2 does not work.
> >
> > Any gotchas like symlinks, etc.?
>
> OK, you got me there - I emailed with you with too little knowledge.
> I gotta admit that I never tried installing 4.0.2 on top of
> 3.3.6. I have had this symlink problem before, in a context that
> I don't recall, but this was when installing from the ports.
The safe way to do this:
tar -zcvf XFree3.3.6.tgz /usr/X11R6
rm -rf /usr/X11R6
install XFree 4.0.2
That's *not* ideal if you have a lot of ports installed into
/usr/X11R6 (e.g., GIMP), but it *will* avoid symlink problems.
That said, you can always untar 3.3.6 someplace else and diff the
trees. You'll probably want to rebuild the dependant ports anyway, so
that they're linked against the new XFree libraries (I admit, though,
that this wasn't an issue when I went from 3.3.6 to 4.0.1_10).
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer
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