HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:35:07AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >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
> 
> X11 forwarding no longer appears to work. Bad hardcoded path with the 
> base system Openssh, perhaps?

After you finished the upgrade and installed the X11R6 symlink?

Kris