Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:49:57 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More XORG_UPGRADE questions Message-ID: <20070625204957.0f58c0e2@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <566539.96420.qm@web59307.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <566539.96420.qm@web59307.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:32:55 -0700 (PDT) Blah Blatz <blahblatz@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks for the responses to the previous ones. > > If I have successfully upgraded to xorg 7.2, and later I want to do a > portupgrade of my installed ports to a newer version, and those > include xorg or some xorg-related ports, do I have to again make sure > that XORG_UPGRADE is set? > > Or, after having successfully upgraded to 7.2, can I forget about > XORG_UPGRADE forever (at least, until the next time that I install > xorg on a fresh box)? > > How long is it planned/expected to be so that people installing on a > fresh box (or, depending on the answer to that last question, > upgrading their existing 7.2+) have to know/remember XORG_UPGRADE? All XORG_UPGRADE is, is a reminder to read UPDATING. If it's not defined, and /usr/X11R6 is an ordinary directory, then x11/xorg-libraries wont build. Once you have run mergebase.sh, /usr/X11R6 is a symlink, not a directory so there's no need to define XORG_UPGRADE thereafter. Future releases of FreeBSD wont be a problem either, but a clean install of 6.2 (or older versions) will need mergebase.sh to clean-up the references to X11R6 in the base system.
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