Avoiding upgrade to xorg 7.2

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Jun 12 21:25:33 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:44:09PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> It appears after a recent "cvsup" many ports that depends on X11 fail to
> build.  For example: "portupgrade nspluginwrapper"
> 
> ===>   nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.4_2 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries
> Read /usr/ports/UPDATING for the procedure to upgrade or install xorg 7.2.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Updating from xorg 6.9 to 7.2 appears to be a tricky thing.  This is my
> main system, I don't want to risc breaking it.
> 
> So how do I make the ports accept xorg 6.9 and not require upgrading to
> 7.2?  I compiled the same port for 6.9 just fine, so there is no real
> dependency on the 7.2 version.

Stick with the PRE_XORG7 tag (or whatever we called it) until you are
ready to upgrade.  You can't easily mix and match old and new ports.

Kris


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