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. The same code is currently in the xorg-x11-xfs rpm scripts also, and when you upgrade from xorg-x11-xfs to the next xorg-x11-xfs package that comes out, things will also "just work". The problem, is when you 'upgrade' from XFree86-xfs -> xorg-x11-xfs, part of the XFree86-xfs rpm scripts that was never used before gets activated for the first time, and xfs ends up getting disabled because of the order in which rpm runs the various install/uninstall scripts. The xorg-x11-xfs package is doing the right thing. The problem is that the old XFree86-xfs package was not ever written to be upgraded from XFree86 to something else that provides the exact same purpose, so that codepath never got tested and has never caused problems before due to that. Essentially it goes like this: - xorg-x11-xfs package is installed - xorg-x11-xfs post script which configures xfs is ran - XFree86-xfs postun script is ran which unconfigures xfs - XFree86-xfs package that was obsoleted by xorg-x11-xfs is uninstalled ... or something very close to that anyway. The problem however is a one time problem. Once you're upgraded to xorg-x11, and you re-enable xfs, it should just work from then on, including through future upgrades of xorg-x11. In short: Just a one time growing pain. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - X.org X11 maintainer - Red Hat
