Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:45:03 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports Message-ID: <3F58773F.6040309@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20030905111001.GA77412@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <3F586C9A.1010805@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20030905111001.GA77412@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > >>Hi lists, >> >>I upgraded Xfree86-clients from ports using portupgrade today and noticed >>that xdm was no longer working afterwards. >>After some searching i found that the config files in >>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm had been overwritten. >> >>Since i had a similar problem with another port the other day, i want to >>ask: >> >>- Is this expected behaviour? >>- Should i manually inspect my config files after each portupgrade? >>- Or is this just a bug in XFree86-clients (and possibly some other ports)? >> >>Luckily, my changes to the config files were only minor, so i did not have >>to restore them from tape :-) >> >>Anyway it's annoying.. > > > Yes, I've been bitten by this in the past. In theory you can avoid > re-installing the xdm config files by: > > % make install InstallXdmConfig=NO > > or by adding that variable to the MAKE_ARGS array in > /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf is you're a portupgrade(1) user. > However, I just keep a backup copy of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm > directory handy: > > # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ > # rsync -avx --delete xdm/ xdm.bak/ > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Ok, this would help for xdm. I wonder however, how many other packages are out there with similar behaviour and what other directories i should have a copy of handy. Or, to put it this way: I would like a port/package system that i can rely on :-) - Heinrich
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