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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2007 00:45:52 +0200
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <fbsd-stable-0@ml.turing-complete.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Corrupt fonts-alias (Re: xorg 7.2 start problem)
Message-ID:  <20070524224552.GA77459@mid.pc5.i.0x5.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070524210820.GA33171@xor.obsecurity.org>
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* Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [2007-05-24 17:08 -0400]:
> >   Unfortunately portupgrade (nor portupgrade-devel) cannot yet handle
> >   the rigors of the xorg upgrade without a small bit of help:
> > 
> >   # portupgrade -Rf libXft
> > 
> > before you do the portupgrade -a?
> 
> No, that is to avoid a dependency loop involving libXft and
> xorg-libraries because of a bug in how portupgrade orders
> dependencies.

Ah. I didn't really use portupgrade, I just used it to sort the
ports I wanted to update. And after seeing this (and the failures),
I rebuilt libXft and convinced ld-elf.so to use the library in
/usr/local in preference of the one in /usr/X11R6. The following
rebuild of the fonts worked fine.

Nicolas

-- 
http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas



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