Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 18:07:46 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Shaun Branden <shaun@pcuse.com> Subject: Re: updating xorg-libraries 7.2 to 7.2.1 Message-ID: <4659BAE2.6040107@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4659AF0B.3030307@math.missouri.edu> References: <20070527125334.GA81644@pcuse.com> <20070527132131.GW47537@tcbug.org> <46598F2E.50004@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4659AF0B.3030307@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> Josh Paetzel wrote:
>>> Shaun Branden wrote:
>>>> xorg 7.2 was installed on this system from scratch, ie no ports to
>>>> start
>>>> with.
>> sh /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh
>>
>> before proceeding to install whatever ports you want.
> My experience is that simply having the symlink /usr/X11R6->/usr/local
> is totally sufficient.
>
> However it seems to me that what the port building procedure should now
> do is the following:
>
> * if /usr/X11R6 exists as a directory, it should issue an error message
> like it does now.
>
> * if /usr/X11R6 doesn't yet exist, silently create the symlink.
>
> This will mirror how it used to behave, in that if /usr/local or
> /usr/X11R6 did not exist, they would be created as needed.
Oh, agreed to that. However, there are still more changes needed
beyond that:
Stopping the system running periodic jobs from /usr/X11R6/etc/periodic
Stopping the system running startup scripts from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
Stopping the system searching for manpages from /usr/X11R6/man
The last is fairly trivial, but realise that the first two mean that
with the /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local link in place all
/usr/local/etc/periodic jobs would get run twice, and even more
importantly all /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ startup scripts would also run
twice.
Until there are new system releases incorporating the necessary changes
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/periodic.conf it will be
necessary to override some of the default settings. In /etc/rc.conf:
local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"
In /etc/periodic.conf:
local_periodic="/usr/local/etc/periodic"
and for completeness sake, comment out the 'X11R6' lines in
/etc/manpath.conf
Cheers,
Matthew
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