Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 16:06:30 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X.org 7.2 ports merged into the FreeBSD Ports Tree Message-ID: <464F82F6.7010008@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070519223641.GE1164@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <464F62D8.80200@FreeBSD.org> <20070519215700.GC1164@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <464F75BF.80203@FreeBSD.org> <20070519223641.GE1164@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-May-19 15:10:07 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>
>>> I presume there will be followup commits at some stage to fix
>>> src/etc/defaults/rc.conf src/etc/defaults/periodic.conf and
>>> src/etc/login.conf
>> I presume that by "fix" you mean "remove X11R6 related stuff."
>
> Yes.
>
>> My vote (as
>> someone deeply interested in /etc and especially rc.d related issues) would
>> be that it be changed in 7-current soonish, and not changed in RELENG_6 at
>> all. Given that by default there will be /usr/X11R6 symlinks for the
>> foreseeable future, I don't see any harm in leaving the status quo as is in
>> RELENG_6, and I see potential POLA violations if we don't.
>
> There are POLA violations whatever is done:
>
> If X11R6 references are removed then anyone who hasn't upgraded to xorg
> 7.2 will lose any X-related startup/libs/manpages/...
>
> If you upgrade to xorg 7.2 but don't cleanup the /etc files then rc.d
> and periodic scripts are processe twice. (I was getting warned about
> ports with security problems twice).
I don't have the X11R6 symlink, so that one hadn't bitten me yet. That
should be fixed in rc.subr in find_local_scripts_new() so that it
doesn't add a script to the list that's already there. That's pretty
easily done, and could/should be MFC'ed.
Doug
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