From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 20:58:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8F916A412 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:58:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FED043D45 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:58:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB211A4D82; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6D8325169C; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:29:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:29:17 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Eric Schuele Message-ID: <20061019202917.GA36027@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org> <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org> <20061019195516.GC2023@medusa.sysfault.org> <20061019201413.GA35696@xor.obsecurity.org> <4537DDB9.9030500@computer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4537DDB9.9030500@computer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:58:07 -0000 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:19:05PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: > On 10/19/06 15:14, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:55:16PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: > >>On, Thu Oct 19, 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: > >>>>Hi, > >>>> > >>>>according to the status report sent around today, X11BASE should be > >>>>dropped in favour for LOCALBASE. > >>>> > >>>>Is there an actual schedule until when this should happen and how sho= uld > >>>>we deal with our current ports now? Just remove the USE_X_PREFIX macro > >>>>when we submit new PRs for (our) existing ports or anything besides > >>>>that?=20 > >>>> > >>>>A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too= =20 > >>>>:-). > >>>It can only possibly happen after a team of interested people have put > >>>in the work to fix the several thousand ports that have hard-coded > >>>knowledge of /usr/X11R6 (i.e. which do not respect X11BASE anyway). > >>So what was the announcement about then? Was the X11BASE vs. LOCALBASE > >>section within it just a generalization of the GNOME changes and X11BASE > >>will be kept? Or should we maintainers switch to LOCALBASE whenever > >>possible from now on? > > > >It wasn't an "announcement", it was a description of future plans. I > >don't know who is actively working on it. >=20 > But /usr/ports/UPDATING reads: > 20061014: > AFFECTS: All GTK+2 and GNOME users > AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org >=20 > GNOME has been updated to 2.16. All GTK+2 and GNOME components have > been moved from X11BASE (/usr/X11R6) to LOCALBASE (/usr/local). To > upgrade your GNOME desktop or/and other applications you will need > to use either sysutils/portupgrade or sysutils/portmaster. To use > portmaster, make sure you have least 1.9 version to have the > upgrade success. Right, as it says GNOME moved to LOCALBASE but everything else in X11BASE is still there. kris --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFN+AdWry0BWjoQKURAoOsAKDxLlycRM32H07fvr+LUvGQPcwBkgCgnX4q IpyxOto5OJJQwyidGAZmv24= =NMf3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--