Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:06:48 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Avoiding upgrade to xorg 7.2 Message-ID: <20070613200648.GA56054@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200706132008.l5DK8Uou006501@moolenaar.net> References: <20070612212531.GA19270@rot13.obsecurity.org> <200706132008.l5DK8Uou006501@moolenaar.net>
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:08:30PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:44:09PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > > It appears after a recent "cvsup" many ports that depends on X11 fail to > > > build. For example: "portupgrade nspluginwrapper" > > > > > > ===> nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.4_2 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries - not found > > > ===> Verifying install for /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries > > > Read /usr/ports/UPDATING for the procedure to upgrade or install xorg 7.2. > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > Updating from xorg 6.9 to 7.2 appears to be a tricky thing. This is my > > > main system, I don't want to risc breaking it. > > > > > > So how do I make the ports accept xorg 6.9 and not require upgrading to > > > 7.2? I compiled the same port for 6.9 just fine, so there is no real > > > dependency on the 7.2 version. > > > > Stick with the PRE_XORG7 tag (or whatever we called it) until you are > > ready to upgrade. You can't easily mix and match old and new ports. > > A variable that means "stick to 6.9" would be very nice. Also a hell of a lot of work, so unlikely to be feasible. > But I have a problem with the "(or whatever we called it)" bit. > Looking in the /usr/ports/Mk directory I can't find something that > looks like PRE_XORG7. So what is it called? It's a cvsup tag, check the CVS logs (e.g. cvsweb). Kris
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