On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jeff Whitaker wrote:

>
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, sinclair44 wrote:
>
> > Hello-
> >
> > I see that you have a fink package for XFree86-4.3; nice work! I want to
> > upgrade ASAP, but am confused as how to do so.
> >
> > It seems that xfree86-base and -rootless have been combined into the package
> > xfree86, and a new package was created called xfree86-upgrade. Should I
> > compile the new xfree86 package and then install xfree86-upgrade, or will
> > -upgrade do it all?
> >
> > ....
>
> Sinclair:  The upgrade package should do it all.  Unfortunately, the patch
> file was missing from CVS.  This is now fixed - do a "selfupdate-cvs" and
> try again.  Please let me know how it goes.
>
> -Jeff
>

Sinclair:  I realized that I might have misled you here - installing the
upgrade package is not sufficent.  After you install it, you have to run
the script "upgrade-xfree86".

-Jeff

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