HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri May 11 07:19:30 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:38:30PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:28:17PM -0400, 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
> > the upgrade process.
> 
> Amendment to the instructions: XORG_UPGRADE must be set before the
> portupgrade -Rf libXft.

Amendment two: for now you need to build your own INDEX or portupgrade
probably won't work correctly.  Before running portupgrade do:

portsdb -U

(This is only required during the pre-commit testing; once it's in CVS
'make fetchindex' will work as normal)

Kris



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