Setting X11BASE
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Sun May 20 18:28:45 UTC 2007
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:13:42PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm trying to do security updates on a few hosts of mine, but nothing
> (portsdb, portupgrade, ...) will work, with the following reason.
>
> >On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default
> >X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
> >X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.
> >On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please
> >set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
>
> I know of the X.Org 7.2 update, but I'm trying to avoid that, since this
> are text-mode servers, and I only have xorg-libraries-6.x as a
> dependency of other ports.
>
> Before I do something really bad, I thought I'd ask:
> should I really set X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} or should I set X11BASE=/usr/X11R6?
>
> In case in the future I do upgrade X.Org, should I remove that?
The former, and you'll need to keep it until your upgrade your base system.
Kris
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