Upgrade xorg 6.9 to 72

[RW]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:25:16 +0200
Martin Schweizer <office at pc-service.ch> wrote:

> Hello RW
> 
> Am Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:23:14PM +0100 RW schrieb:
> 
> > > > > I read UPDATING and did all the steps described there. 
> > > > 
> > > > No, you didn't because /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries/Makefile
> > > > contains a little test to make sure you have read UPDATING.
> > > 
> > > No, it's not correct. I followed the steps from top to down.
> > > Since I have no gstreamer ports (I did not find any) I used
> > > portupgrade -a. After this I get the output as I send before.
> > > Yes, I checked also the .../xorg-libraries/Makefile and saw the if
> > > loop. I now too that after portupgrade -a went I need further
> > > steps too (symlinks etc.). Since I'm not 100% shure that this
> > > output is correct I wrote this mail. So if I do something wrong
> > > please give me a hint where I did something wrong. Any hints are
> > > welcome.
> > 
> > 
> > You haven't mentioned setting XORG_UPGRADE.
> 
> I've checked of course the environment. I set both variables setenv
> BATCH yes and setenv XORG_UPGRADE yes.
> 
> [snip]
> ===>  Cleaning for xorg-libraries-7.2_1
> Read /usr/ports/UPDATING for the procedure to upgrade or install xorg
> 7.2. *** Error code 1
> ...
> The only one I saw is the above line but I have no idea what this
> mean. Do you have any ideas?

Yes, the xorg-libraries Makefile tests that you have set XORG_UPGRADE
and will abort if you haven't. If XORG_UPGRADE is set then it isn't
possible for this error to be seen. 

The point of the test is make sure that no-one upgrades xorg without
reading UPDATING.