Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:46:14 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 breaks ports collection Message-ID: <20030323004614.GA83484@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030323003505.GA31503@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030322225237.GA82960@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030322234433.GA30963@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030323002855.GA83375@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030323003505.GA31503@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:35:05PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:28:55PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > I checked src/UPDATING and the freebsd-ports and > > freebsd-current mailing lists. There is no entry > > or HEADSUP that states the new XFree86 4.3.0 port > > has broken the ability to use the ports collections > > on all FreeBSD systems with older versions of > > XFree86-4 installed. Perhaps, an entry in src/UPDATING > > stating that FreeBSD Portmgr is dictating a mandatory > > upgrade of XFree86-4 to 4.3.0 is in order. > > Uhh..the ports collection has NEVER supported using mixed old/new > versions of ports. This set of ports worked fine with all ports I have installed. kargl[204] pkg_info | grep XFr XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using mini/meta-po XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Font Server XFree86-Server-4.2.1 XFree86-4 X server and related programs XFree86-clients-4.2.1 XFree86-4 Client environments XFree86-documents-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Document Files XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0_2 XFree86-4 Cyrillic Fonts XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Scalable font files XFree86-libraries-4.2.1 XFree86-4 include/(shared) library kit I need to update transfig and xfig for new features. The commit message below forces everyone to upgrade to XFree86 4.3.0, because date.def did not exist prior to this commit. Revision 1.442 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Wed Mar 12 00:28:17 2003 UTC (11 days ago) by anholt Branch: MAIN Changes since 1.441: +2 -4 lines Diff to previous 1.441 (colored) Change the imake-4 dependency to the new date.def file in XFree86 4.3.0. Approved by: portmgr > There's nothing new going on here, and portmgr is > not "dictating" anything: I'm just explaining reality to you. Notice the Approved by line. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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