HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

[Danny Pansters]

On Friday 11 May 2007 00:26:31 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:11 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 May 2007 23:28:17 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Dear porters,
> > >
> > > We are now ready for xorg 7.2 testing!  Over the past week we have
> > > done extensive tests of various upgrade scenarios, fixed many
> > > remaining bugs, and now the upgrade is looking good.  Of course, we
> > > can't possibly test everything, so that's where you come in.  What we
> > > need now is for everyone to download this tarball:
> > >
> > >   http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/ports-xorg-7.2.tbz
> > >
> > > Extract it into a clean directory (i.e. not over the top of your
> > > existing ports tree), then follow the directions in UPDATING to begin
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this require that the tarball is
> > extracted over existing /usr/ports? Using portupgrade etc.
>
> No.  DO NOT EXTRACT OVER EXISTING /usr/ports as this will cause patch
> problems.  Instead, set the PORTSDIR environment variable to the
> fully-qualified path to this new location.  For example:
>
> # cd /space/xorg/ports
> # tar -xjf ports-xorg-7.2.tbz
> # setenv PORTSDIR `realpath .`
>
> The realpath is important so as to resolve symlinks.


OK, thanks. This wasn't very clear.

Dan