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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