From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 14 07:54:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9522916A401 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:54:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4A213C4B0 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:54:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so610195ugh for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:54:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XXHpLs7LJj0VVyL8ZLJFIi7wt70Gccq6B7gdxae6rCQKwi3xmoKlcqLggzhO4xNmsHghJj5OheFlewUbW5L99Sn269bmuTMfvrwlUYgzcBkXQ0lJBdAeAy1IIfXiFgvcb8NZ9uPM+Dfsq+r6keaY/tiV7L9ygF+BWglEBypneXY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SjmGTrHHuMzpwJD9T47WQk6x/vxm662CZwSebCFmVU4IxTsDPGngxu0d9TQFN3S4jxwLVFEVpqaRsjw7bIm91OgJ6HO9NQIRVZPpyN98vus7/UfLNkbYUJeGDGnGgJiZ0HvB7bJ4kFZ5C6SysO7/qrX3k1AU9hALS6BVG6hpM2g= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr5298723bue.1176537277032; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.106.12 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6eb82e0704140054h2ebd6b5t635eb06e85a32e2b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:54:31 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" To: "Dejan Lesjak" In-Reply-To: <200704132331.50079.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200704132331.50079.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP for git X.org ports users: change of X11BASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:54:38 -0000 On 4/14/07, Dejan Lesjak 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