cvs commit: ports/x11/gdm Makefile

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Jun 14 18:10:23 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:33:09PM +0900, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:21:27 -0500
> "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> > >> >>  Add a hack to fix a lot of hardcore paths of /usr/X11R6 to fix the
> > >> >>problem for
> > >> >>  users that do not have symlink of /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local when they
> > >> >>have gdm
> > >> >>  enable in the startup. Bump the PORTREVISION.
> > >> >>  Reported by:    Werner Lehmann <elvis69 at arcor.de>
> > >> >FYI NOP changes like this shouldn't get PORTREVISION bumps.
> > >> It needs to be bump for the package and other users that do not have
> > >> symlink of /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local. I do not want to do it by manual or
> > >> add in UPDATING for tell them to reinstall it.
> > > It's not a supported configuration to run without the symlink.
> > > It is a good idea to fix remaining instances of /usr/X11R6 over time,
> > > but these are NOP changes and should not get PORTREVISION bumps.
> > Ok next time, I won't bump and will imaging it as a 'NOP' change. I feel  
> > dirt to do this.
> 
> 	I don't think that this change is NOP.  I was embarrassed with
> 	this problem, too.  I did clean-install all ports such as Werner.
> 	So I'm grad to get fixed binary by mezz's bumping PORTREVISION.

Then the question you should be asking is "why did the symlink
creation by xorg-libraries not happen?".

Kris



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