Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:00:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Keith Seyffarth <weif@weif.net> To: bh@izb.knu.ac.kr Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: can't upgrade - catch-22 Message-ID: <200710270700.l9R70UIj026651@maxine.cjones.org> 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 %2B0900) References: <200710222014.l9MKE5QW013875@maxine.cjones.org> <1193108098.984.8.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr>
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> > 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
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