Reviewing changes before the merge of X.org 7.2

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Apr 13 21:03:30 UTC 2007


On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:55:40PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> As you may know, we're not far from merging xorg modular in the CVS
> repository. Before this happens, we have to make sure there are no
> collateral damages made to innocent ports.
> 
> I'd like people to come to #freebsd-xorg on EFNet this week-end and
> coordinate to review this diff [1], so that we don't duplicate the
> effort more than once. So come, pick a category (say games), say you're
> going to review it on the channel, then have fun. Obviously you can do
> that for more than one category.
> 
> Most of the changes made to existing ports (besides xorg itself and
> mesa) should be pretty straight-forward like fixing plist issues due to
> prefix merge, setting USE_GL when it's not, ... so it shouldn't take
> that long, assuming I'm not alone with miwi.
> 
> Anyway, the more who comes, the quicker it will be.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> [1] http://nikki.xbsd.org/xorg-bigdiff-20070410.diff.gz

Thanks for organizing this.  One of the main things we want to check
for is that there are no unnecessary changes from e.g. mis-merges from
CVS into the git repo, which would introduce regressions back into the
CVS tree.

Kris
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