Re: XOrg 7.0 dfport override.

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James L. Davis wrote:
> Hello everyone.  It seems that there were two reported
> problems with the X.org-7.0.tar.bz2 dfport override that
> was published on ftp.fortunaty.net.  The two problems were
> that True Type font rendering and mousewheel support stopped
> working.

> I've put the updated port here:
>
>   http://bsdbox.net/~davis/XOrg-7.0_2.tar.bz2

Works fine for me, thanks.  I don't have a mousewheel so I can't
comment.  TrueType rendering definitely works with the xtt module.

Installing this non-standard port has some implications for
package management, as I discovered:

First, the port advises you to delete several XFree86 packages
before proceeding.  It fails to mention the imake-4 port which
also should be deleted -- these files are included in the xorg
port.

Second, 'portupgrade' and 'pkgdb' will choke on the new X.org
package.  I found that editing /usr/local/etc/pkgtool.conf like
this will get rid of that part of the problem:
 HOLD_PKGS = [
    'bsdpan-*',
    'x11/X.org-7.0',
  ]
And you will need to run pkgdb -F and specify X.org-7.0 as the
new dependency to replace all the missing XFree86 packages.
Pretty simple, really, but if don't do it you'll get multiple
annoying error messages.