Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 04:24:03 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bob McDonald <bob.tdlc@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Error in upgrading xorg (no metaport installed) Message-ID: <20070521082403.GA51136@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <c90b52710705202308w7d8669cdt612eca1ed53288bf@mail.gmail.com> References: <c90b52710705202308w7d8669cdt612eca1ed53288bf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:08:23PM +0900, Bob McDonald wrote: > I just followed the instructions in UPDATING to try to upgrade xorg, > and recorded the script as suggested (though I didn't record the > portupgrade upgrade) > > On the portupgrade -Rf libXft line I ran into an error with livXau as > listed at the bottom of this e-mail. (the full script is available at > http://www.t4ac.com/xorg-upgrade.bz2) > > I wasn't paying much attention and tried to run portupgrade -a > afterwards but a pkgdb problem stopped that from doping anything. > > A friend who has been reading up on the upgrade said that he saw > elsewhere that one should install the xorg metaport before starting, > but I didn't see that anywhere in UPDATING and hadn't done so. Your system still is installing into /usr/X11R6. The only reason I can think of is that you have specified this in your /etc/make.conf. Can you confirm? Kris
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