Newb Issues with portupgrade & xorg

Thu May 24 20:05:07 UTC 2007

Disclaimer:   I read /usr/ports/UPDATING  (I swear!)

To summarize.  It would be a great idea to add to add portupgrade-devel
to i386/packages-5.5-release/latest/ so people with that version can
finish the instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING for xorg.  I am sure I
committed all kinds of crimes against logic and process here, but I did
make an honest attempt to read everything.

It's a brand new install of FreeBSD 5.5.  The
i386/packages-5.5-release/latest/ does NOT have the latest portupgrade
or portupgrade-devel or the port-mgmt folder for that matter.  So
pkg_add -r cannot be used to fix issues.  Installing using the port is
NOT an option as I get the error:  

"On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately cannot set default
X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting
X11BASE=3D${LOCALBASE} in make.conf.

On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please set
variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE." 

Which of course is what I am trying to fix, but I cannot fix without
first installing the new version of portupgrade, which I can't install
installing using pkg_add -r, and it's not easy to find, specially for
stupid newbs like me, even newbs who try and read documentation.

I finally got portupgrade-devel from "ftp
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/ports-mgmt/
portupgrade-devel-2.3.0_5.tbz"

This is a brand new install of FreeBSD 55

(FreeBSD FreeBSD55_3.COMPANYNAME  5.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE #0:
Tue May 23 14:58:27 UTC 2006
root at perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386)

Its on a VMware server.  Not sure what else I should say re
architecture.

Complete pkg list

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 13:50 autoconf-2.59_2

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:18 cups-base-1.1.23.0_8

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  7 17:14
cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:52 db4-4.0.14_1,1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:54 db41-4.1.25_3

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 14:20 gettext-0.16.1_1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 13:49 gmake-3.81_1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:18 gnutls-1.2.10_1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 13:49 help2man-1.36.4_1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 14:20 jpeg-6b_4

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:18 libgcrypt-1.2.2

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:18 libgpg-error-1.1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 14:20 libiconv-1.9.2_2

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 13:40 libtool-1.5.22_4

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  7 12:44 linux_base-8-8.0_14

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 12:25 lynx-2.8.5_2

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 13:50 m4-1.4.4

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 12:21 mysql-client-5.0.18_1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 12:21 mysql-server-5.0.18_2

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 13:56 openldap-client-2.3.35

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 13:49 p5-gettext-1.05_1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:21 perl-5.8.8

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:18 pkgconfig-0.20

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3430400 May 24 16:02 pkgdb.db

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 14:20 png-1.2.8_3

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:18 popt-1.7_3

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 16:11
portupgrade-devel-2.3.0_5

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:21 ruby-1.8.4_4,1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:21 ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May 24 15:54 ruby18-bdb4-0.5.7

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 14:30 samba-3.0.24,1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  7 17:45 screen-4.0.3

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  7 16:57 sudo-1.6.8.12_1

drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 May  8 14:20 tiff-3.8.0_1

I updated my ports collection  (I ran cvsup -g -L 2 supfile (which has
ports-all), that ran and finished properly).

Attached is the script log..  I hope you don't get too frustrated by
seeing me do id10t stuff such as trying to install a port with pkg_add
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