xorg7.2 update

Hans Nieser h.nieser at xs4all.nl
Thu May 31 09:04:19 UTC 2007


Alexander wrote:
> ----- Message from kris at obsecurity.org ---------
>     Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 02:55:40 -0400
>     From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> Reply-To: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
>  Subject: Re: xorg7.2 update
>       To: Alexander <freebsd at nagilum.org>
>       Cc: freebsd-x11 at FreeBSD.org
> 
> 
>> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 07:45:10AM +0200, Alexander wrote:
>>> I think in /usr/ports/UPDATING there is one important thing missing
>>> regarding the xorg upgrade. After the upgrade one should add:
>>>
>>> local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"
>>>
>>> to "/etc/rc.conf" because otherwise all local packages will be started
>>> twice.
>>
>> No, mergebase does this.
> 
> Ah! I did not use that since UPDATING only speaks about merging
> /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local which I had already done manually. Changes in
> /etc/rc.conf, /etc/periodic.conf and /etc/manpath.config where not
> mentioned so I did not bother running the script. It may be a good idea
> to add another sentence about that to UPDATING. I'd bet I'm not only one
> stumbling over that.

I did exactly the same as you did. Did not realise this was going on until
now. Thanks for bringing this up!


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