Avoiding upgrade to xorg 7.2
Bram Moolenaar
Bram at moolenaar.net
Wed Jun 13 20:04:07 UTC 2007
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.
A variable that means "stick to 6.9" would be very nice. But I have a
problem with the "(or whatever we called it)" bit. Looking in the
/usr/ports/Mk directory I can't find something that looks like
PRE_XORG7. So what is it called?
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