Re: updating xorg-libraries 7.2 to 7.2.1

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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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