Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 21:50:09 +0100 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Marijn van Vliet <w.m.vanvliet@student.utwente.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Xorg 7.2 update Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0705281350x1f6bbf47s44a3664875c5c215@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070528164056.GC2188@kobe.laptop> References: <E461B827-C0BA-4126-8BD1-83E60BA81884@earthlink.net> <b41c75520705271047od3375bdk449653e2edc70edc@mail.gmail.com> <20070527215727.GD67158@lassie.student.utwente.nl> <20070528003710.GB13910@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20070528005004.GA45015@kobe.laptop> <20070528074747.GA81264@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20070528164056.GC2188@kobe.laptop>
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On 28/05/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2007-05-28 09:47, Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > 1st of all, thanks for providing 7.2 in the tree ! > > Well said. The Ports team and the people who did the pretest runs with > the xorg update, before it was even committed, are the ones who deserve > all the thanks. Thank you all guys :) > > > I had another little problem with xorg. While you did an upgrade > > installation, I nuked all of my ports and started over. > > > > I discovered, that an installation by compiling all myself failed > > very early. > > > > Its easily to reproduce by installing on a vanilla empty system. > > > > Sorry I didn't save the error message. > > Oh I did both :) > > First I tried "pkg_delete *", and rebuild everything. One tricky part > here is that despite the fact that _nothing_ is installed, you have to > export XORG_UPGRADE='yes' in the environment before building from > scratch. It's kind of unintuitive that you have to specify _UPGRADE_ > for a clean installation, but it works fine. > > Then, I updated my ports tree again, after a couple of days: > > portsnap fetch update > > and rebuilt everything with: > > portupgrade -vu -N -ar > > A new version of the freetype2 port triggered a full xorg update, this > time using portupgrade. XORG_UPGRADE='yes' is still required in the > running environment. > > It's hard to guess without seeing the exact error message, but if it was > related to `x11/xorg-libraries', then you were probably bitten by the > lack of $XORG_UPGRADE in the environment. If you do repeat the build, > can you try catching any errors inside a script(1) session? That would > be nice to have :) > > - Giorgos > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > My concerns are these. 1 - Was this tested on freebsd 5. if no should the port have been made to not install on 5.x, on a 5.x server I admin it has completely hosed the ports setup I had to use pgdb -F to remove all x11 dependencies that wont compile there is at least 5 diff x11 ports now that wont compile or install with pkg_add. 2 - I read UPDATING but there is no mention of the USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE=yes I had to set on freebsd 6.1 servers, is it assumed everyone is using either 6.2 or 7.0? and is USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE=yes the correct one to use when also using WITHOUT_X11= yes and WITHOUT_XPM= yes?
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