From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 07:00:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0E916A417 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:00:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from weif@maxine.cjones.org) Received: from maxine.cjones.org (chris.static.mt.net [206.127.66.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F8E13C480 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:00:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from weif@maxine.cjones.org) Received: from maxine.cjones.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by maxine.cjones.org (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l9R70WIS024573 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:00:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from weif@localhost) by maxine.cjones.org (8.13.8/8.13.3) id l9R70UIj026651; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:00:30 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:00:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200710270700.l9R70UIj026651@maxine.cjones.org> From: Keith Seyffarth To: bh@izb.knu.ac.kr In-reply-to: <1193108098.984.8.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> (message from Byung-Hee HWANG on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:54:58 +0900) References: <200710222014.l9MKE5QW013875@maxine.cjones.org> <1193108098.984.8.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> X-Greylist: Sender is SPF-compliant, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (maxine.cjones.org [IPv6:::1]); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:00:32 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=NO_RELAYS autolearn=failed version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on maxine.cjones.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: can't upgrade - catch-22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: weif@weif.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:00:37 -0000 > > On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default > > X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting > > X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf. > > On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please > > set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE. > > > > However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either > > X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this > > error. > > > > Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby installed? I > > think once I have that installed, I should be able to get port-upgrade > > fixed and then maybe be able to get some patches downloaded... I would > > really appreciate any tips or suggestions. > > > > output of uname -a: > > FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov > > 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 > > root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > There was major change about Xorg; For more details, plase see here: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-May/001131.html > > I think the upgrade was/is mandatory, not optional ;; Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it isn't really very helpful. I guess I didn't clarify the catch-22 in my previous post. In order to get X upgraded, I need to get portupgrade working. This requires that X already be upgraded. This, in return requires portupgrade... I was starting with trying to get Ruby because that addressed the vulnerabilities I was trying it initially address. However, that's pretty irrelevant at the moment. Where I'm stuck is getting either portupgrade working or getting X upgraded, both of which seem to be dependent on the other having already happened... Thanks, Keith