Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:11:40 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/X11R6 sym link Message-ID: <20141030101140.b92cfb2c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20141030075304.GA1912@unixarea.DDR.dd> References: <20141030065945.GA1778@unixarea.DDR.dd> <20141030081503.5985afdb.freebsd@edvax.de> <20141030075304.GA1912@unixarea.DDR.dd>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:53:04 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Thursday, October 30, 2014 a las 08:15:03AM +0100, Polytropon es= cribi=F3: >=20 > > > Ofc, I have had an image of the key and could recreate the key in a f= ew > > > minutes. And of course, I could have seen this and ofc I will keep my > > > eyes wider open next time, but I'm curious: what piece of old package > > > could have created such a symlink in this older (9-CURRENT) > > > system? > >=20 > > I think this symlink is being created already by the > > OS installation. You can add any missing directories > > using mtree and the .dist files in /etc/mtree... > >=20 > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 2011-08-21 22:32:05 X11R6@ -> /usr/local > >=20 > > On the other hand, I assume any port that still > > requires /usr/X11R6 will take care to create it. >=20 > My fully installed 11-CURRENT with KDE4 (...) does not has such a sym > link: >=20 > $ ls -l /usr > total 102 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8192 6 oct 07:55 bin > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 3 oct 12:52 games > drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 25 may 09:17 home > drwxr-xr-x 54 root wheel 6144 3 oct 12:56 include > drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 13312 3 oct 12:57 lib > drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 3 oct 12:50 lib32 > drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 3 oct 12:50 libdata > drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 1536 3 oct 12:58 libexec > drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512 24 oct 11:27 local > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 3 oct 12:49 obj > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 5120 3 oct 12:58 sbin > drwxr-xr-x 33 root wheel 1024 3 oct 12:50 share > drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel 1024 3 oct 12:49 src > drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 3 oct 12:58 tests Because /usr/X11R6 has been obsoleted, and all the programs you have installed on your recent system seem to be aware of it. The X11R6 symlink will only be relevant to programs (or port install "recipes") that haven't made the transition yet. On my system (very old) this symlink is still present because the installation is full of old software. :-) --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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