New installation of xorg 7.2 from ports

Florent Thoumie flz at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 20 17:36:44 UTC 2007


Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising at gmail.com> writes:
>> Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> writes:
>>> It looks like that message gets displayed if XORG_UPGRADE and
>>> PACKAGE_BUILDING are undefined.  Since this isn't an upgrade do I
>>> still need to set XORG_UPGRADE anyway?
>> Yes, that's the case. At least if i remember correctly. It's just to
>> avoid a certain amount of foot-shooting.  You also should symlink
>> /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local.
> 
> No, it's broken.  It shouldn't bail when installing on a clean system
> (with no pre-7.2 ports installed)

A fix should be committed to BSD.usr.dist to create the symlink, but
this won't solve the problem until people upgrade world.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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