HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:11:15AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 5/13/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> >On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:00:51AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> >> Reporting success on one of my desktops. It's a current/i386
> >> box with a little over 1000 packages (after the upgrade).
> >>
> >> I used portupgrade-devel, but started with stale INDEX. For
> >> this reason or not, I stumbled upon the libXft quirk. Stopped
> >> the upgrade when I saw a few pkg_create's to take far too
> >> long because of dependency loop, rebuilt the INDEX with
> >> "make index" (portsdb -U didn't work for me), ran pkgdb -F
> >> and after that portupgrade -a finished without any major
> >> surprises.
> >
> >Can you confirm that you started by doing portupgrade -Rf libXft and
> >it still gave the dependency loop?
> 
> Nope, I actually misread UPDATING and thought portupgrade-devel
> didn't need it. [ try s/nor/not/ in the message :) ]

OK, that's precisely the expected failure mode then :)

> >> mergebase.sh failed, probably because my system is quite
> >> dirty. Even after I removed the conflicting files, it just
> >> failed. I've made the merge myself and been living happily
> >> ever since (so far).
> >
> >Hmm, would be nice to know why.
> 
> I'll try to look closer at it on my laptop. Something tells
> me it'll fail there too, because it's my development system
> and it's as dirty as it gets.

Running sh -x will help.

Kris