> The following instructions state to unpack the Xenocara sources in
> /usr, but should be done instead from the /usr/xenocara directory as
> the preceding directory for contents is ./ (whereas ports.tar.gz
> unpacks into ports/)?
>
>     The following commands assume you have followed these instructions
> to give a non-root
>     user write access to the src, ports and xenocara directories.
>
>     $ cd /usr/src
>     $ tar xzf /tmp/src.tar.gz
>     $ tar xzf /tmp/sys.tar.gz
>     $ cd /usr
>     $ tar xzf /tmp/ports.tar.gz
>     $ tar xzf /tmp/xenocara.tar.gz

Funny.  I've been running 6.3 since it was released and never noticed I
had extracted (by my script) right into /usr.  Guess I haven't needed to
look at X source since April...

Those instructions worked pre-6.3.

Martin

$ ftp http://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/xenocara.tar.gz
Trying 192.43.244.161...
Requesting http://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/xenocara.tar.gz
  0% |                                                  |   896 KB    07:05 
ETA^C
http fetch aborted.
$ tar tzf xenocara.tar.gz | head -3                                       
.
./CVS
./CVS/Root
gzip: stdin: Input/output error
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
$ ftp http://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/xenocara.tar.gz 
Trying 192.43.244.161...
Requesting http://ftp.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/xenocara.tar.gz
  0% |                                                  |  1152 KB    05:32 
ETA^C
http fetch aborted.
$ tar tzf xenocara.tar.gz | head -3                              
xenocara
xenocara/CVS
xenocara/CVS/Root
gzip: stdin: Input/output error
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached

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