On 27/05/07, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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"
I had never previously noticed that (/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d) in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I understand why it is in there but I find it overly solicitous towards that beast.
> > 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.)
Philosophically, I would have voted for /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d never appearing in /etc/defaults/rc.conf in the first place. Setting the string explicitly in /etc/rc.conf seems just fine by me. Of course, X having its own etc tree (oh, you special little thing, you) was likely a silly idea all along. Of course, given its absurd compexity and size one could easily adopt the opposite argument. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
