[nycbug-talk] Upgrading to Xorg-7.1

[Scott Robbins]

If anyone is interested, I tried doing the upgrade, following the
instructions at 

http://wikitest.freebsd.org/ModularXorg

It went quite smoothly.  There was one case of a circular dependency--I
believe it was after I installed xorg-7.1.  (I was just doing this for
fun on a sacrificial machine, and didn't document what I was doing.)

I saw, doing a ls of /var/db/pkg that it had been registered, so I
ctl-C'd out of it and ran pkgdb -F.  This fixed it.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

(If there's enough interest in this post, I'll probably run it again and
this time, actually make note of what I'm doing).

Following the instructions, I installed the entire xorg-drivers
collection (later on the X11 mailing list, flz@ mentioned that he gave
that path for safety, and agreed that it's probably unnecessary).  If I
do have a chance for a second test run, I'll just install mouse,
keyboard, vesa and the mga driver for that machine.  

The only other trouble I had was that portupgrading xorg-server didn't
remove xorg-server-6.9.  I'm not sure why and suspect it's something
silly that I missed. 

At any rate, it went so smoothly that I'm probably going to try it on my
main home machine (after doing a dump of everything to another drive 
first, just in case.)   I was impressed by the ease of upgrade. 

-- 

Scott

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