Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:10:01 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports Message-ID: <20030905111001.GA77412@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3F586C9A.1010805@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <3F586C9A.1010805@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:59:38PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> Hi lists,
>
> I upgraded Xfree86-clients from ports using portupgrade today and noticed
> that xdm was no longer working afterwards.
> After some searching i found that the config files in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm had been overwritten.
>
> Since i had a similar problem with another port the other day, i want to
> ask:
>
> - Is this expected behaviour?
> - Should i manually inspect my config files after each portupgrade?
> - Or is this just a bug in XFree86-clients (and possibly some other ports)?
>
> Luckily, my changes to the config files were only minor, so i did not have
> to restore them from tape :-)
>
> Anyway it's annoying..
Yes, I've been bitten by this in the past. In theory you can avoid
re-installing the xdm config files by:
% make install InstallXdmConfig=NO
or by adding that variable to the MAKE_ARGS array in
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf is you're a portupgrade(1) user.
However, I just keep a backup copy of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm
directory handy:
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
# rsync -avx --delete xdm/ xdm.bak/
Cheers,
Matthew
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