Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 12:54:45 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, portmgr@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Ready to merge? Message-ID: <464EE585.2030406@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070519013100.GA78897@over-yonder.net> References: <20070518212940.GA51647@xor.obsecurity.org> <1179526307.6238.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20070519013100.GA78897@over-yonder.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig001DFA475DC1536543D686FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:11:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of > Joe Marcus Clarke, and lo! it spake thus: >> Perhaps you want to mention that if X11BASE is a file system, then >> mergebase will not work properly. X11BASE would have to unmounted aft= er >> backing up and merging contents, but before X11BASE is removed and the= >> symlink is created. >=20 > What about those who have X11BASE a symlink into (not onto) LOCALBASE? >=20 > % ll /usr/X11R6 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 May 12 1999 /usr/X11R6@ -> local/X11R6 This falls into the non-standard-configuration category, so you're expected to tweak mergebase.sh to do what you want. This may sound a bit harsh but we can't possibly support every marginal setup. Easy way: # rm /usr/X11R6 && mkdir /usr/X11R6 && mv /usr/local/X11R6/* /usr/X11R6/ [...] and let mergebase.sh do the job for you --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --------------enig001DFA475DC1536543D686FB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTuWJMxEkbVFH3PQRCr2JAJ9hlbk/Als7rNRFiQ6mWNX5AYi5ZQCeIV19 0azsrlJ5sSe861dBROe5txE= =k6Rh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig001DFA475DC1536543D686FB--
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