Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:54:31 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Dejan Lesjak" <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP for git X.org ports users: change of X11BASE Message-ID: <6eb82e0704140054h2ebd6b5t635eb06e85a32e2b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200704132331.50079.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> References: <200704132331.50079.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
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On 4/14/07, Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> wrote: > Greetings, > > So there it goes, the patch to change X11BASE to point to $LOCALBASE will go > into git shortly. Before further updating of your ports, you will need to > merge stuff that you now have in old X11BASE (/usr/X11R6 by default) onto > LOCALBASE (/usr/local by default). here's a suggestion how to do that: > - make a tar backup of /usr/X11R6 > - extract that backup onto /usr/local with option to not overwrite existing > files > - remove /usr/X11R6 > - create symlink /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local for compatibility (configuration > files, /var/db/pkg package database, ...) > > The above instructions are available in form of shell script here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~lesi/mergebase.sh > > Feel free to come up with better suggestions. > > What is now in this git tree (with the mentioned change) is pretty much what > will go into ports tree. > If anyone plans on testing the upgrade from xorg 6.9 to 7.2, "portupgrade -a" > or similar should do the right thing (preferably after merging bases). > > Do tell us your experiences, suggestions,... So, how do I have a correct package database in /var/db/pkg, i.e., s/X11R6/local/g ? In addition to this, your script works fine here (I have been using git tree for some time). Regards, Rong-En Fan
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