From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 27 18:14:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975FB37B404; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020428011439.VFAM8969.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:14:39 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3S1EdcB055501; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3S1Ecfr055500; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204280114.g3S1Ecfr055500@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020416 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE In-reply-to: <20020428111119.B77837@k7.mavetju.org> References: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020427221418.J56612@k7.mavetju.org> <20020427135344.D89190@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020428104843.K56612@k7.mavetju.org> <200204280058.g3S0w5L4055297@intruder.bmah.org> <20020428111119.B77837@k7.mavetju.org> Comments: In-reply-to Edwin Groothuis message dated "Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:11:19 +1000." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:14:38 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If memory serves me right, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:58:05PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > If memory serves me right, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > > > The problem what I was refering to was that an application from the > > > BASE OS was relying on a library in the PORTS SYSTEM. > > > > XFree86 isn't part of the base system. It's a port/package that > > has a little bit of special support in sysinstall(8). > > Too true. > Oh well, I hope that somebody will think about the possible problems > before it gets shipped and I just wanted to give them my experiences. Yes, we've been thinking about it. Bruce. (Junior RE Team Member) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message