From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 07:42:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A247716A420 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (137-42-178-69.gci.net [69.178.42.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A7313C4B0 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@freebsd.org) Received: by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id C15BC7F24; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:26:22 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beech Rintoul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, weif@weif.net Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:26:08 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200710222014.l9MKE5QW013875@maxine.cjones.org> <1193108098.984.8.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> <200710270700.l9R70UIj026651@maxine.cjones.org> In-Reply-To: <200710270700.l9R70UIj026651@maxine.cjones.org> X-Face: jC2w\k*Q1\0DA2Q0Eh&BrP/Rt2M,^2O#R07VoT98m*>miQF9%Bi9vy`F6cPjwEe?m,)=?utf-8?q?2=0A=09X=3FM=5C=3AOE9QgZ?="xT3/n3,3MJ7N=Cfkmi%f(w^~X"SUxn>; 27NO; C+)g[7J`$G*SN>{<=?utf-8?q?O=3Bg7=7C=0A=09o=7D=265A=5D4?=@7D`=Eb@Zs1Ln814?]|k@'bG=.Ca"[|8+_.OsNAo8!#?4u MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710262326.16943.beech@freebsd.org> Cc: bh@izb.knu.ac.kr, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't upgrade - catch-22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Beech Rintoul List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:42:06 -0000 On Friday 26 October 2007, Keith Seyffarth said: > > > On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set > > > default X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting > > > X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf. > > > On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, > > > please set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE. > > > > > > However, even if I edit /etc/make.conf and add either > > > X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or X11BASE=/usr/X11R6, I still get this > > > error. > > > > > > Any suggestions or recommendations on how to get ruby > > > installed? I think once I have that installed, I should be able > > > to get port-upgrade fixed and then maybe be able to get some > > > patches downloaded... I would really appreciate any tips or > > > suggestions. > > > > > > output of uname -a: > > > FreeBSD computer.weif.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: > > > Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 > > > root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > > There was major change about Xorg; For more details, plase see > > here: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-May/0011 > >31.html > > > > I think the upgrade was/is mandatory, not optional ;; > > Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it isn't really very helpful. > I guess I didn't clarify the catch-22 in my previous post. > > In order to get X upgraded, I need to get portupgrade working. This > requires that X already be upgraded. This, in return requires > portupgrade... > > I was starting with trying to get Ruby because that addressed the > vulnerabilities I was trying it initially address. However, that's > pretty irrelevant at the moment. > > Where I'm stuck is getting either portupgrade working or getting X > upgraded, both of which seem to be dependent on the other having > already happened... > > Thanks, > Keith Make sure your ports tree is 100% up to date. Uninstall portupgrade & all it's dependencies. cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade && make install clean Read and follow the instructions in UPDATING for updating xorg Cheers, Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------