Upgrading xorg 6.9 to 7.3 -- what happened to xorg-upgrade?

Bob Willcox bob at immure.com
Fri Feb 1 05:14:31 PST 2008


On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:40:44PM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 21:26 -0600, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 01:30:23AM +0100, Operator wrote:
> > > In article <xs4all.20080201001036.GB26119 at rancor.immure.com>,
> > > 	Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > What I want is the xorg-upgrade
> > > > program that is used to move a bunch of x11 files to new places for the
> > > > 7.x version.
> > > 
> > > /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh
> > 
> > Is mergebase.sh a replacement for xorg-upgrade?
> > 
> 
> Bob,
> 
> Re-read the previous replies and re-read man script(1) paying careful
> attention to the syntax of the (optional) arguments. xorg-upgrade is the
> name of the output file that script(1) will write to (i.e. name it
> anything you want, how about xorg-upgrade.log). xorg-upgrade is merely a
> suggested name for it.
> 
> The wording of the /usr/ports/UPDATING entry can be misleading if you
> read it quickly and make what appears to be a reasonable assumption
> about how script(1) is used, viz. "run the xorg 7.2 upgrade inside a
> script(1) session." followed by the "# script xorg-upgrade" example.

Ok, my dumb mistake...of course you guys are all right! I've been pretty
sick is my only (lame) excuse, and it must be effecting my ablity to
think. :)

Thanks and I apologize for all the noise.

Bob

> 
> 
> Wayne

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Bob Willcox                      A lack of planning on your part does
bob at immure.com                   not constitute an emergency on my part.
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