first? patch [ HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing ]

Ulrich Spoerlein uspoerlein at gmail.com
Tue May 15 22:07:13 UTC 2007


Sam Lawrance wrote:
> I think I have figured this out.  In short: portupgrade does not include new, previously not 
> installed, dependencies in its list of tasks when updating.   In this particular case, 
> gstreamer-plugins-bad was built before one of its dependencies was updated, and we end up 
> with a crufty old reference to X11R6.

That is exactly why I recommend using WITH_FOO flags in /etc/make.conf
instead of the pkgtools.conf. It can only, really work if you pass
WITH_* flags to make(1) itself.

Of course, WITH_ flags have nothing to do with your problem at hand.
Sorry for hijacking this thread.

Ulrich Spoerlein
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