Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:46:32 +0200 From: Charlie & <root@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/56487: Upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports overwrites xdm config files Message-ID: <E19vE6q-000M6v-Lp@antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de> Resent-Message-ID: <200309051050.h85AoJTG020221@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 56487
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports overwrites xdm config files
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 05 03:50:18 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Heinrich Rebehn
>Release: FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
University of Bremen
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Aug 29 12:13:45 CEST 2003 root@antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de:/export/huge/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ANTSRV1 i386
>Description:
After upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports using portupgrade,
the config files in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm are overwritten with the default files,
which leads to xdm no longer working (depending on config)
>How-To-Repeat:
portupgrade 'XFree86-clients-4.3.0_1' to 'XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3'
and watch your xdm config file being clobbered.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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