X11BASE warning

[Diane Bruce]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:22:59PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Florent Thoumie wrote:
> >Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>Diane Bruce wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I've been getting away with "hybrid builds" in tinderbox, i.e.
> >>>a buildset with a pile of packages with X11BASE set to /usr/X11R6/
...
> >>>
> >>>export
> >>>PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:${LOCALBASE}/sbin:${LOCALBASE}/bin:${X
> >>>11BASE}/bin

Which I simply hacked for my testing of course. ;-)

> >I wanted to talk to you on IRC about that but haven't seen you lately.

I think I messaged you just before you went to sleep. ;-)

> >
> >Anyway, I've been talking with kris and netchild and we concluded that
> >the easy way to do it was to freeze the tree, merge my exp tree, commit
> >a megapatch to bump PORTREVISION in all ports that install files in
> >${X11BASE} (whether their PREFIX is X11BASE or not) and un-freeze the
> >tree. We will probably recommend that people create a symlink from
> >/usr/X11R6 to /usr/local (just in case).
> >
>
> Sorry, I've been traveling.  My IRC proxy is not working very well.
> I'll try to get online this weekend.  If not, I'll be back home on the 8th.
>
> Given this information, I don't think we need any Tinderbox hooks to
> keep X11R6 around.

I concur. It would simply be nice to get rid of this mess.

- Diane

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