HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Monday 14 of May 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Some good news and some bad news:
>
> Good news:
>
> Upgrade seems OK on my 6.2-STABLE/amd64 system butI needed multiple
> "portupgrade -a" iterations before it upgraded everything.  I think
> this is a side-effect of using ports-mgmt/portupgrade rather than
> ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel.
>
> Note that you _must_ rebuild xorg.conf because the xorg modules are
> in a different relative location so the /usr/X11R6 symlink isn't enuf.
>
>
> Bad news:
>
> My very-out-of-date -current system has gotten into a confused state.
> Possibly I didn't help by forgetting to disable my automatic port
> INDEX build so that INDEX reverted to the /usr/ports one partway thru.
> I fixed that and aborted the portupgrade when I noticed but that
> was quite sometime later.
>
> I've been trying to recover using "pkgdb -F" but that has reached a
> state where it's reporting:
> Stale dependency: ffmpeg-0.4.9.p1_7 -> libGL-6.5.3_1 (graphics/libGL):
> The libGL build works but then reports that it conflicts with
> xorg-libraries-6.9.0_1.  The latter is still installed in /usr/X11R6
> but graphics/libGL/Makefile also reports that it uses X11BASE.
>
> Has anyone got any suggestions before I start editing the CONFLICTS lines?

Manual upgrade of libraries should probably work 
(ie "cd /path/to/test/tree/x11/xorg-libraries && make build && make deinstall 
&& make install).

Dejan