How to Handle the Three Newest Additions to the /usr/ports/CHANGES?

Bob Perry rperry4 at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 24 08:33:48 PDT 2004


Joshua Tinnin wrote:

>On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:36 am, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig at spymac.com> 
>wrote:
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>>On Friday 23 July 2004 10:10 pm, Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>Just cvsup'd my system for the weekend and found three additions
>>>to the /usr/ports/CHANGES file.  They referenced a replacement of
>>>the XFREE86_VERSION variable by the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable,
>>>a big update to PHP ports and bsd.php.mk to add more flexibility  plus
>>>an announcement that "OpenLDAP version 2.2 is now the default..."
>>>
>>>I'm still learning FreeBSD and deal with issues as they come up.   I
>>>remember reading postings regarding the XFree86 issue but thought
>>>I had the option to leave well enough alone.  Maybe not.
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>>I don't know about the other two, but as for the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable,
>>it looks to me like it's related to this:
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>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/032267.html
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>>It only applies to -CURRENT right now, but it's as easy as adding a line to
>>rc.conf if you want to stay with XFree86.
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>Sorry, that should have been make.conf. It's too early ...
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JT,
Thanks for the update.  Just read all of the related messages and I think I
can handle this.

Need to pause for a moment and give myself a FreeBSD pep talk.

Thanks again.

Bob Perry


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