On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 21:45, Tod M. Neidt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Here is a simple patch to glibc-2.2.4-r2.ebuild to check for a running
> Xserver and if there is to exit and echo telling the user to quit X and
> merge from the console.
> 
> tod
> 

Not going to work.  As i am sitting here, if I do a 'su -' to su to
root, $DISPLAY is not defined anymore after su, and it _is_ after all
only root (for the moment anyhow) that can merge packages.

> --- /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.2.4-r2.ebuild	Fri Sep 28 05:51:17 2001
> +++ glibc-2.2.4-r2.ebuild	Sat Nov  3 19:37:46 2001
> @@ -15,6 +15,15 @@
>  #We need gcc-2.95.3-r2 because it includes a special fix for this glibc version (2.2.4)
>  DEPEND="~sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.10 nls? ( sys-devel/gettext ) gd? ( media-libs/libgd )"
>  
> +#Check for running xserver
> +if [ "$DISPLAY" ]
> +	then
> +	echo "You can't merge glibc with a running X server."
> +	echo "Please shutdown X and merge from a console."
> +	exit
> +fi
> +
> +
>  if [ -z "`use bootstrap`" ] && [ -z "`use bootcd`" ] && [ -z "`use build`" ]
>  then
>  	RDEPEND="gd? ( sys-libs/zlib media-libs/libpng ) sys-apps/baselayout"
-- 

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa