On Sun, 27 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Josh Paetzel wrote:
Shaun Branden wrote:
xorg 7.2 was installed on this system from scratch, ie no ports to
start
with.
sh /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh
before proceeding to install whatever ports you want.
My experience is that simply having the symlink /usr/X11R6->/usr/local
is totally sufficient.
However it seems to me that what the port building procedure should now
do is the following:
* if /usr/X11R6 exists as a directory, it should issue an error message
like it does now.
* if /usr/X11R6 doesn't yet exist, silently create the symlink.
This will mirror how it used to behave, in that if /usr/local or
/usr/X11R6 did not exist, they would be created as needed.
Oh, agreed to that. However, there are still more changes needed
beyond that:
Stopping the system running periodic jobs from /usr/X11R6/etc/periodic
Stopping the system running startup scripts from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
Stopping the system searching for manpages from /usr/X11R6/man
The last is fairly trivial, but realise that the first two mean that
with the /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local link in place all
/usr/local/etc/periodic jobs would get run twice, and even more
importantly all /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ startup scripts would also run
twice.
Until there are new system releases incorporating the necessary changes
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/periodic.conf it will be
necessary to override some of the default settings. In /etc/rc.conf:
local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"
In /etc/periodic.conf:
local_periodic="/usr/local/etc/periodic"
and for completeness sake, comment out the 'X11R6' lines in
/etc/manpath.conf
I think that the easiest way (i.e. least disruption) is to add to each of
the X11R6 scripts a test at their beginning to see if X11R6 is a symlink
to /usr/local, and have the scripts do nothing if this is the case. This
way people who haven't yet switched to xorg-7.2 will not be disadvantaged
in any way. (I don't think simply testing to see if X11R6 is a symlink by
itself will be sufficient because I bet that some people already have
symlinks like X11R6->X11 or such like.)
Also, the last change you propose vis a vis man pages, is that actually
necessary - I would have thought that the overhead in searching both local
and X11R6 would be fairly negligable.
Stephen
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