Avoiding upgrade to xorg 7.2
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jun 13 21:23:29 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:23:01PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Mark Linimon wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:08:30PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > A variable that means "stick to 6.9" would be very nice. But I have a
> > > problem with the "(or whatever we called it)" bit. Looking in the
> > > /usr/ports/Mk directory I can't find something that looks like
> > > PRE_XORG7. So what is it called?
> >
> > >From http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:
> >
> > "CVS tags: PRE_XORG_7"
> >
> > So, it's not a variable, it's a CVS tag. You will need to revert your
> > entire ports tree to that date, if that's what you want to do.
> >
> > The testing and integration of xorg7.2 strained our resources. There
> > was no way we had enough time/people/resources to do the testing with
> > a switch that could be thrown either way. Sorry.
>
> Hey, I'm sure you work very hard to make it all work. I appreciate that
> very much.
>
> My problem is that for people who don't know exactly how the ports
> system works and don't keep track of messages in CVS logs or maillists
> it has become very difficult to use the ports system. It's almost as if
> it's only for a small group of people who keep their secrets away from
> casual users. I know this isn't so, but that's what it looks like from
> the outside.
>
> My main complaint is that the dependencies are not working properly. So
> I have xorg 6.9. If I upgrade some port that works just fine with xorg
> 6.9 there should not be a dependency on xorg 7.2. This is a generic
> problem with the ports system, it appears.
It's never been supported to mix and match random old versions of
ports with new ones. This is a bug in your expectation of how ports
should work.
> Now I still don't know how to use or set a CVS tag for cvsup...
We have excellent documentation on this and other relevant topics. I
suggest you take the opportunity to increase your knowledge.
Kris
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