Xorg portupgrade problem

Eric W. Bates ericx at vineyard.net
Thu Jun 7 16:35:07 UTC 2007


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Mark Lubratt wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm currently running FreeBSD 6.2 (and also somewhat of a X novice). 
> Last week I began a port upgrade of all of my installed ports.  I tried
> following the upgrade instructions in the /usr/ports/UPDATING file
> regarding the xorg upgrade to 7.2.  I completed the steps the best that
> I could (I'm still having some gstreamer upgrade problems).  I finally
> made it to the part where mergebase.sh is run.  Mergebase.sh cited a
> list of files that it claims are duplicated.  At the suggestions of the
> UPDATING file, I'm checking here to see what my next step should be.
> 
> mergebase.sh output:
> 
> http://www.indeq.com/mergebase.zMry6rN3
> 
> Could anyone please point me in the right direction?

well...

You have to use a little judgment; but I have been opening up emacs and
comparing the old files with the new files. Typically something has
gotten screwed up while the various ports have been replaced and not all
of the older files were deleted. So if the files really look like
duplicates (e.g. the /usr/local version and the /usr/X11R6 version have
the same relative path and the X11R6 one is older), I just delete them.
After which running the script again eventually finishes.

I believe the script is basically intelligently written with the
assumption that you know best. If you have some custom configs or tweaks
of some sort in the old tree that you do not want to lose, you will
recognize them from the list and move them over to the new tree. But I
have never really done much of that with X; so I have ended up deleting
all the old duplicates after looking them over. My personal rule of
thumb: "If I don't recognize what the file is; then the newer one must
be preferable." A much more rigorous approach is to use pkg_which to
attempt to discover which port each of the questionable files comes from
and read ALL the docs therein (I'm not that rigorous).

ymmv

> Thanks!
> Mark
> 
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