Avoiding upgrade to xorg 7.2

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:53:33PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > Also a hell of a lot of work, so unlikely to be feasible.
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > It's a cvsup tag, check the CVS logs (e.g. cvsweb).
> 
> Sorry for my lack of knowledge: I searched for "CVS logs" and "cvsweb"
> on www.freebsd.org, but didn't find something useful.
> 
> Where do I find the info you refer to?
> 
> What do I do with a cvsup tag?
> 
> A reference to a "how-to" document would be useful.

http://www.freebsd.org/developers/cvs.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/

Not exactly hard to find.



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