Ports problem

Adam J Richardson fatman at crackmonkey.us
Fri Nov 9 06:09:51 PST 2007


RW wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 +0000
> Adam J Richardson <fatman at crackmonkey.us> wrote:
>> Desmond Chapman wrote:
>>> /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot
>>> proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X.
>>> In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists
>>> at all.Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the
>>> procedure to upgrade X.org related ports.*** Error code 1
>> Hi Desmond,
>>
>> When I was faced with this error I did the obvious thing and created
>> a symlink, then restarted the install. 
> 
> Surely the *obvious* thing was to follow the instructions and read
> UPDATING.

I didn't read it that way. You're right though. I'll check out 
mergebase.sh, see if it does anything I need.

Regards,
Adam J Richardson



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