can't upgrade - catch-22

[Beech Rintoul]

On Saturday 27 October 2007, Keith Seyffarth said:
> > Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with
> > portinstall?
> > ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\*
> >
> > That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg.
> > Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then
> > upgrade the packages that depended on xorg.
>
> Well, now that x is uninstalled, you still can't install it without
> having already installed it... It still generates the 'can't set
> default xbase' error.
>
> Any recommendations now that X has been uninstalled?

try: setenv X11BASE /usr/X11R6

then rebuild portupgrade. 

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