Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:09:18 +0000 From: Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports problem Message-ID: <47346A0E.6050605@crackmonkey.us> In-Reply-To: <20071109140018.383dc45d@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <BAY108-W6276F31F1BE735411E7F0ED8F0@phx.gbl> <47346310.5000601@crackmonkey.us> <20071109140018.383dc45d@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW wrote: > On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 +0000 > Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us> wrote: >> Desmond Chapman wrote: >>> /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot >>> proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. >>> In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists >>> at all.Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the >>> procedure to upgrade X.org related ports.*** Error code 1 >> Hi Desmond, >> >> When I was faced with this error I did the obvious thing and created >> a symlink, then restarted the install. > > Surely the *obvious* thing was to follow the instructions and read > UPDATING. I didn't read it that way. You're right though. I'll check out mergebase.sh, see if it does anything I need. Regards, Adam J Richardson
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