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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2007 17:28:09 +0900
From:      "Bob McDonald" <bob.tdlc@gmail.com>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Error in upgrading xorg (no metaport installed)
Message-ID:  <c90b52710705210128k495c4dcbi8153841b57d0ee76@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070521082403.GA51136@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <c90b52710705202308w7d8669cdt612eca1ed53288bf@mail.gmail.com> <20070521082403.GA51136@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Looking at /etc/make.conf I don't see anything in there that looks
related in any way, and I can't think why I would have done something
like that intentionally.  Is there anything in particular I should be
on the lookout for?

thanks,

Bob

On 5/21/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 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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