upgrade 6.2 to xorg 7.2

[Stephen Clark]

Mark Linimon wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:26:21PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
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>>Thats another question - why aren't packages released simultaneously 
>>with the ports update?
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>There's a circular dependency here.  The ports tree is updated by checkins,
>which is then pushed to the package building system, which then does
>complete package builds -- which can take a week or more, depending.
>
>We don't have any way to tell the package system "here is what the ports
>tree will be a week from now"; it's simply driven by cvs checkout, and
>after that it's simply a matter a machine horsepower to crank them out.
>
>We have a fair amount of i386 and amd64 horsepower (the latter is a recent
>development); we have a grossly insufficient amount of sparc64 horsepower,
>and so the packages are ~3 weeks behind.
>
>mcl
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So I should wait a about week after I do a cvsup of ports - then 
hopefully most of the packages
will be there - right?

Steve

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