Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:47:13 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl> Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, freebsd-xfree86@lists.csociety.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.0 going back in the tree Message-ID: <20020318134713.A67055@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020318205743.GA22186@jochem.dyndns.org>; from j.kossen@home.nl on Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:57:43PM %2B0100 References: <20020318004547.GA62117@jochem.dyndns.org> <20020318015837.GV53073@squall.waterspout.com> <20020318192807.GA22036@jochem.dyndns.org> <20020318205343.GO53073@squall.waterspout.com> <20020318205743.GA22186@jochem.dyndns.org>
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--ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:57:43PM +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:53:43PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:28:07PM +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote: > > > > This seems to be the only report that XFree86-4-clients is > > > > broken. Can you please add this line under MAINTAINER in > > > > x11/XFree86-4-clients/Makefile: > > >=20 > > > Just for kicks, on IRC (OPN) i have met three people who had exactly = the same > > > problem...I'll advise them to just install XFree86-4-libraries manual= ly > > > first... > >=20 > > It was later concluded that the problem isn't really how the port > > is written but how ports handles updates by default. You need to > > use a tool like portupgrade or remove all the XFree86* ports > > before installing the new versions (=3Dupgrading). And when you do > > that your dependency chains in /var/db/pkg will be broken. The > > only useful solution right now is portupgrade. > >=20 > But...i WAS using portupgrade :-) >=20 > (i did a portupgrade XFree86, and it chuckled on the XFree86-4-clients > port) So was I. Unless I'm mistaken, it deinstalls the existing XFree86-4 port during build (and puts it back at the end if the rebuild failed). Kris --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8lmBhWry0BWjoQKURAsA8AKCTdCh5nSg4H9/x6qlUAUbsTdiIBwCfept6 79HpZbotyFa1CC5/fQ98sT0= =U2R8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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