HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

[Garrett Cooper]

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?
> -Garrett

Nevermind. I remembered the whole symlink /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local step 
after I sent the email. Things are working again now.

The base version of OpenSSH should be fixed though, perhaps.

-Garrett