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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] modular xorg
From:       Thomas Spuhler <thomas () btspuhler ! com>
Date:       2006-05-23 14:11:27
Message-ID: 200605230711.28007.thomas () btspuhler ! com
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On Tuesday 23 May 2006 12:18 am, Pixel wrote:
> "athleston@yahoo.com" <athleston@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Owing to the massive problems with cookers upgrading xorg6.9 to xorg7.0,
> > and people floundering around trying to fix, why not have a special task
> > package thats responsible to do a. urpmi to install xor7.0 and b. do all
> > required post and pre-install fixups?
> >
> > For example if X11/R6 must die and fixed-fonts must live and we know so
> > for sure, why not write a scripe to do so rather than have people
> > learning this via ML and trying it on at home? thats a fix you could be
> > more confident of and help the most people I think.
>
> most pbs has been fixed at the moment... at least people who have not
> upgraded yet should upgrade nicely. But for people in the middle of
> this mess, there is one things that won't be fixed by upgrading. In
> that case, please do:
>
> mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* /usr/lib/X11
> rmdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
> ln -s ../../lib/X11 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
>
> this may fail. In that case, you may try things like:
>
> cp -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* /usr/lib/X11
> rm -rf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
> ln -s ../../lib/X11 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

Thanks.
Well, this is cooker. One has to expect thing to go wrong.

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Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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