Upgrading xorg 6.9 to 7.3 -- what happened to xorg-upgrade?

Wesley Shields wxs at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 31 12:56:08 PST 2008


On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:34:26PM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote:
> The info in /usr/ports/UPGRADING describing the steps to upgrade xorg
> says to run xorg-upgrade. Unfortunately, I can't find *anything* with
> this name anywhere on my system. Here's my uname output:
> 
> root at sarlacc:pf /usr/ports> uname -a
> FreeBSD sarlacc.austin.ibm.com 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #20: Wed Jan  2 11:29:25 CST 2008     bob at sarlacc.austin.ibm.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SARLACC  amd64
> 
> I have (just today) updated my ports tree (via cvsup).
> 
> Anyone have any idea where I might find the xorg-upgrade file? Perhaps
> it isn't required any longer. If that's the case, that would be good to
> know as well.

What that entry is talking about is using script(1) in order to get an
accurate account of exactly what you did in case something goes wrong.

More information is available in the script man page.

-- WXS


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