F. Heitkamp wrote:
> I usually move the installed XFree to a temporary location before
> attempting a permanent install. i.e. cd /usr/; mv X11R6 X11R6.bak;
> cd /path/to/build; make install;
> If the install goes off without a hitch and the new X runs OK, I
> them move the saved version back and do a make install over the
> top. I've noticed that sometimes even though the make World goes
> off without a hitch the make install will sometimes fail.
To be able to easily switch back to erlier versions I always build
RPMs from the CVS build. The specfile was based on the original SuSE
packages but then heavily modified. With these RPM I was able to rewind
the server packages to a date where the vt-switch did work, but left the
libraries at an up-todate version.
Unfortunately the building of RPMs does normally take twice the time as
the make; make install build because if some files got renamed or removed
or added, I only notice this at the end of the build and have to alter the
spec file and rerun the build. But I think the time I wasted there is saved
when something is broken in the CVS build and I have to go back to an old
version.
bye
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