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Date:      20 Mar 2002 23:02:40 -0600
From:      "Stephen L. Palmer" <slpalmer@midearth.org>
To:        Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86-4-Server / x11/wrapper issue
Message-ID:  <1016686960.42633.7.camel@adam12.midearth.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020320232352.F29954-100000@blues.jpj.net>
References:  <20020320232352.F29954-100000@blues.jpj.net>

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I've not re-cvsup'd the ports tree since then, so this is what I was
using.

slpalmer on adam12:/usr/ports/x11/wrapper % ls -l
total 14
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  727 Mar 11 11:49 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar  9 21:47 files
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   29 May 30  2001 pkg-comment
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   60 Mar 11 11:49 pkg-deinstall
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  500 Mar 11 11:49 pkg-descr
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  306 Mar 11 11:49 pkg-install
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 20 18:16 work
slpalmer on adam12:/usr/ports/x11/wrapper % head Makefile
# New ports collection makefile for:	wrapper
# Date created:				2000-09-18
# Whom:					Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/x11/wrapper/Makefile,v 1.11 2002/03/11 13:08:22 trevor
Exp $
#

PORTNAME=	wrapper
PORTVERSION=	1.0
PORTREVISION=	1
slpalmer on adam12:/usr/ports/x11/wrapper % 

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 22:44, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:23:03PM -0600, Stephen L. Palmer wrote:
> > > After upgrading XFree86-4-server to 4.2.0 via ports, user accounts could
> > > no longer 'startx'.  did 'make deinstall;make reinstall' in
> > > ports/x11/wrapper, which resolved issue.  Should there be some type of
> > > dependency here to cause wrapper to update if allready installed?
> 
> Hi, Stephen.  I'm the maintainer of the wrapper port.  Do you know
> specifically what was causing the problem?  Also, do you know when you had
> installed the first time (or better yet, what revision of
> ports/x11/wrapper/Makefile did you have then)?  I recently made some
> changes to the port, and I didn't test installing an X server, then
> installing the wrapper, then installing another X server.  Maybe I didn't
> give enough thought to that case.
> 
> > wrapper already RUN_DEPENDS on XFree86-4-server.  If you use a tool
> > like portupgrade which handles dependencies properly when rebuilding,
> > this would presumably have been taken care of automatically.
> 
> Can you be more specific about what's wrong with the way bsd.port.mk
> handles dependencies?  Are any patches available (perhaps in the portmgr
> queue) which might improve the situation for users who don't have
> portupgrade?  If there's no fix, maybe describing the deficiency would
> inspire someone to write one.  :)
> -- 
> Trevor Johnson
> 
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