Xorg and marcusmerge like script

Baptiste Daroussin baptiste.daroussin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 07:17:24 PDT 2006


Thanks I'll try that.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:10:54 +0200, "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/10/9, Baptiste Daroussin <baptiste.daroussin at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to test the new xorg ports for Xorg 7.1, is there any scripts
> available like marcusmercge (for gnome) to test it ? It would easier my
> life to have one.
>>
> I don't know of such a script, but what I did was:
> 
> 1. Check out the git repository:
> # cd /usr
> # git clone http://git.xbsd.org/projects/xorg-exp.git xorg-modular-exp
> 
> 2. Find differences:
> do ls > m-i for each directory i in /usr/xorg-modular-exp/
> do ls > d-i for each corresponding directory i in /usr/ports/
> 
> 3. Merge-copy the modular tree into the main ports tree using the
> attached script.
> 
> 4. Uninstall the old xorg
> 
> 5. Install the new xorg:
> # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg-complete
> # make install clean
> 
> To update:
> 
> 1. Update the tree:
> # cd /usr/xorg-modular-exp
> # git pull
> 
> Perform step 2 and 3 as above.
> 
> 4. Something like portmaster -a
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Regards.
> Rene
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