HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:38:37AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that's one of the many cleanup steps that will happen after the import.

Kris