From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 7:19:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2324D37B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 07:19:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id f3HEJre18703; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 07:19:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 07:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Trevin Chow Subject: Re: Why do all ports want Xfree86 3.3.6_8? In-Reply-To: <20010417110804.A86484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote: > * Trevin Chow [010417 10:34]: > > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote: > > > > > XFREE86_VERSION=4 > > > > > > in /etc/make.conf. > > > > Do you mean /etc/defaults/make.conf? > > I didn't, but that will work. NO!! Yes, it will "work", but there's a good reason the two are separate. Leave the /etc/defaults/ files alone, and make your changes in a file of the same name in /etc. So in this case, add XFREE86_VERSION=4 to /etc/make.conf, and it will override any setting in /etc/defaults/make.conf. When you eventually run mergemaster after updating your machine, it will update /etc/defaults/make.conf, but your changes will be left intact in /etc/make.conf. It makes life much easier in upgrades this way. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message