I'm trying to get a working xfree86 again after upgrading to the 10.2gcc3.3 unstable tree. (I'm running Package manager version: 0.17.4, Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs on a G3 PowerBook, MacOSX 10.2.8)
I needed to switch to this tree in order to install the latest qt3 and a couple other things required by a new piece of software written by a research collaborator.
All my original (300 or so) packages that do not depend on xfree86 seem to have been successfully updated or rebuilt through selfupdate and update-all, but xfree86 is now broken. I basically got lost in the lingo of whether I needed only base, or rootless, or threaded, or whatever, to 'satisfy virtual dependencies' so I tried to force-remove all 4.2.x (and I moved /private/etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 by renaming them) and just installed version 4.3.0-16 along with the corresponding shlibs, and now 4.3 shows as current. All 4.2.x packages are in the 'archived' state. But when I try to 'fink update-all' using FinkCommander, that sucker churns for about a day on several dozen packages that depend on xfree86 and need to be updated, and then finally FC bails because it cannot 'batch install' the older 4.2.x xfree86 packages that it automatically chose as also needing to be updated.
Could someone please point me, or remind me how, to (manually?) remove all of xfree86 and start over, without trashing the other xfree-dependent packages along the way? Do I manually remove the .deb files for instance? Do I need to stick with xfree version 4.2.x or should it be possible to go with 4.3?
Thanks for any suggestions. Sorry for the ramble. --Michael
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