Re: Xorg 7.2 update

On 28/05/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2007-05-28 09:47, Andreas Klemm <andreas_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 1st of all, thanks for providing 7.2 in the tree !
>
> Well said.  The Ports team and the people who did the pretest runs with
> the xorg update, before it was even committed, are the ones who deserve
> all the thanks.  Thank you all guys :)
>
> > I had another little problem with xorg. While you did an upgrade
> > installation, I nuked all of my ports and started over.
> >
> > I discovered, that an installation by compiling all myself failed
> > very early.
> >
> > Its easily to reproduce by installing on a vanilla empty system.
> >
> > Sorry I didn't save the error message.
>
> Oh I did both :)
>
> First I tried "pkg_delete *", and rebuild everything.  One tricky part
> here is that despite the fact that _nothing_ is installed, you have to
> export XORG_UPGRADE='yes' in the environment before building from
> scratch.  It's kind of unintuitive that you have to specify _UPGRADE_
> for a clean installation, but it works fine.
>
> Then, I updated my ports tree again, after a couple of days:
>
>    portsnap fetch update
>
> and rebuilt everything with:
>
>    portupgrade -vu -N -ar
>
> A new version of the freetype2 port triggered a full xorg update, this
> time using portupgrade.  XORG_UPGRADE='yes' is still required in the
> running environment.
>
> It's hard to guess without seeing the exact error message, but if it was
> related to `x11/xorg-libraries', then you were probably bitten by the
> lack of $XORG_UPGRADE in the environment.  If you do repeat the build,
> can you try catching any errors inside a script(1) session?  That would
> be nice to have :)
>
> - Giorgos
>
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My concerns are these.

1 - Was this tested on freebsd 5. if no should the port have been made
to not install on 5.x, on a 5.x server I admin it has completely hosed
the ports setup I had to use pgdb -F to remove all x11 dependencies
that wont compile there is at least 5 diff x11 ports now that wont
compile or install with pkg_add.

2 - I read UPDATING but there is no mention of the
USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE=yes I had to set on freebsd 6.1 servers, is it
assumed everyone is using either 6.2 or 7.0? and is
USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE=yes the correct one to use when also using
WITHOUT_X11=    yes and WITHOUT_XPM=    yes?