Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 13:22:36 -0500 (CDT) 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: <20070527131707.F97044@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4659BAE2.6040107@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20070527125334.GA81644@pcuse.com> <20070527132131.GW47537@tcbug.org> <46598F2E.50004@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4659AF0B.3030307@math.missouri.edu> <4659BAE2.6040107@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, 27 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> Matthew Seaman wrote: > >>> Josh Paetzel wrote: >>>> Shaun Branden wrote: > >>>>> xorg 7.2 was installed on this system from scratch, ie no ports to >>>>> start >>>>> with. >>> sh /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh >>> >>> before proceeding to install whatever ports you want. > >> 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. > > Oh, agreed to that. However, there are still more changes needed > beyond that: > > Stopping the system running periodic jobs from /usr/X11R6/etc/periodic > > Stopping the system running startup scripts from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d > > Stopping the system searching for manpages from /usr/X11R6/man > > The last is fairly trivial, but realise that the first two mean that > with the /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local link in place all > /usr/local/etc/periodic jobs would get run twice, and even more > importantly all /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ startup scripts would also run > twice. > > Until there are new system releases incorporating the necessary changes > in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/periodic.conf it will be > necessary to override some of the default settings. In /etc/rc.conf: > > local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" > > In /etc/periodic.conf: > > local_periodic="/usr/local/etc/periodic" > > and for completeness sake, comment out the 'X11R6' lines in > /etc/manpath.conf I think that the easiest way (i.e. least disruption) is to add to each of the X11R6 scripts a test at their beginning to see if X11R6 is a symlink to /usr/local, and have the scripts do nothing if this is the case. This way people who haven't yet switched to xorg-7.2 will not be disadvantaged in any way. (I don't think simply testing to see if X11R6 is a symlink by itself will be sufficient because I bet that some people already have symlinks like X11R6->X11 or such like.) Also, the last change you propose vis a vis man pages, is that actually necessary - I would have thought that the overhead in searching both local and X11R6 would be fairly negligable. Stephen
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