HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote:

> On Wed 02 May 2007 14:05, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we
>>> are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade.  Because this is a
>>> huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully.
>>
>> I tried X 7.2 about a week ago, and I can report some minor problems.
>>
>> First, "pkg_delete -a" took far too long.  X7.2 has so many dependencies, that I sense that it is beginning to overload the ports structure.
>> My guess is that "pkg_delete -a" spends a huge amount of time just checking out all the dependencies before it even starts.
>>
>> Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had created a .Xauthority file.  While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem
>> completely, I don't think this is user friendly.
>>
>> But I might be a little out of sate, and all this has since been fixed.
>>
>> Stephen
>
> Doesn't this do the same as pkg_delete -a:
> rm -r /var/db/pkg /usr/local /usr/X11R6
>
> The main difference is that pkg_delete checks the file's checksums,
> and leaves files with changed checksums alone.
>

Yes.  And indeed this is more or less what I did (I had various config 
files in /usr/local/etc that I didn't want deleted).  But this is most 
definitely not a user friendly solution!