Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:14:39 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.x and non-standard X11BASE Message-ID: <20061130041439.GA19223@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20061129071901.GA6960@holestein.holy.cow> References: <20061128174728.GB69619@samodelkin.net> <456C799B.9010800@FreeBSD.org> <20061129071901.GA6960@holestein.holy.cow>
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--LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:19:01AM -0500, Parv wrote: > in message <456C799B.9010800@FreeBSD.org>, > wrote Doug Barton thusly... > > > > When xorg 7 is imported, it will be installing into /usr/local. > > Shortly thereafter the plan is to do away with the X11BASE stuff > > altogether, and have all ports install into /usr/local. > >=20 > > In order to prepare for this change, and to fix as many ports as > > possible before it happens, the ports cluster has started running > > experimental builds with X11BASE set to something that is not > > /usr/X11R6 AND not /usr/local. So, you can easily reproduce this > > condition by doing the same thing yourself. > ... > > There are two ways to do this. Either way you choose, you have to > > put something like this in /etc/make.conf: X11BASE=3D > > /usr/local/xorg I chose that directory for my experiment, you can > > use whatever directory works for you that is NOT /usr/X11R6 or > > /usr/local. >=20 > I have been using X11BASE=3D/misc/local/X (set in /etc/rc.conf; > /usr/X11R6 is symlinked to it) at least since Dec 2006 (Xorg 6.2). > So far I have not noticed any problems with 343-some ports (which do > not have a great deal of GNOME or KDE). >=20 > Short of testing with full blown GNONE|KDE, is there anything else I > can try to test? Should I try without the /usr/X11R6 symlink? Yes, because your current configuration is a NOP ;-) Kris --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFblqvWry0BWjoQKURAnDhAJ9LIGVkko+2TMp7IV3BF16u89IicwCfcaTj FTI/9e15UpDoIRgNm1bEsoU= =VFyv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--
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