On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, sjb wrote:

> I'd like to upgrade from XFree 4.1 to 4.2 .. but I'd like to be able to
> restore 4.1 in the event that 4.2 causes problems.

Are you compiling XFree from sources?

What I do is tar up my old /usr/X11R6 directory.  Compile and
install XFree over the top.  That way if the new version is
"hosed" somehow, I can get my old setup back.

The only problem I've found is sometime old includes and so
forth are left behind.  For example Xft is currently broken
in the CVS AFAIK, and I've had to mv/rm the Xft includes to
keep it from being detected in configure scripts.

I suppose you could delete the actual XFree includes and lib
directories before the install, but then required libraries
would be gone too, possibly.

Fred

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