Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 11:17:15 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Shaun Branden <shaun@pcuse.com> Subject: Re: updating xorg-libraries 7.2 to 7.2.1 Message-ID: <4659AF0B.3030307@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <46598F2E.50004@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20070527125334.GA81644@pcuse.com> <20070527132131.GW47537@tcbug.org> <46598F2E.50004@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Josh Paetzel wrote: >> Shaun Branden wrote: > >>> xorg 7.2 was installed on this system from scratch, ie no ports to start >>> with. > >> For right now if you want portupgrade to do anything with xorg you >> need to export XORG_UPGRADE > > Creating the /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local symlink is necessary, even on a > system with xorg 7.2 installed from scratch. The presence of that > symlink will stop the xorg-libraries port whinging at you. > > There are a couple of other bits that need twiddling in the default > system, and a very handy way of getting them all to happen is by > running mergebase.sh. On a completely virgin newly instaleld system, > with /usr/ports populated, but no ports yet installed you may need > to: > > mkdir /usr/X11R6 > > to give that script something to chew on, and then just: > > sh /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh > > before proceeding to install whatever ports you want. > > Cheers, > > Matthew My experience is that simply having the symlink /usr/X11R6->/usr/local is totally sufficient. However it seems to me that what the port building procedure should now do is the following: * if /usr/X11R6 exists as a directory, it should issue an error message like it does now. * if /usr/X11R6 doesn't yet exist, silently create the symlink. This will mirror how it used to behave, in that if /usr/local or /usr/X11R6 did not exist, they would be created as needed. Stephen
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