Updating to xorg-x11 packages?

Nicolas Mailhot Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Tue Mar 23 09:37:14 UTC 2004


Le lun, 22/03/2004 à 18:44 -0500, Mike A. Harris a écrit :

> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> >> > Yum started complaining about missing XFree86 packages, which led
> >> > me to discover the xorg-x11 packages in the archive.  Is there
> >> > some trivial way to migrate to these packages short of installing
> >> > them manually (and possibly having to remove the XFree packages
> >> > first)?
> >> 
> >> yum --exclude=Xfree86\* install xorg-x11
> >
> >And check you have 0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6 at least - the previous rpm
> >sets had a borked xfs install, which caused X startup to fail.
> 
> That's not quite true.  The problem is the transition of
> upgrading from XFree86 -> xorg-x11 in the handling of the
> XFree86-xfs rpm scripts.  On normal XFree86->XFree86 upgrades,
> the scripts will be treated as an "upgrade" and the "problematic"
> code does not ever get executed, so the problem is not ever
> noticed.

Actually, I was thinking more of the library problem. The xfs unsetting
I had completely forgotten;)

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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