HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

[Doug Barton]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:38:46AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we
>>> are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade.  Because this is a
>>> huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully.
>> Good news that this is moving forward! Congrats to all involved.
>>
>>> The current plan is the following:
>>>
>>> 2) Final prep work in git repository.  We need a day or two to confirm
>>> the upgrade method for users.  Unfortunately testing has exposed a
>>> critical deficiency in portupgrade so 'portupgrade -a' will not be
>>> enough to give a working upgrade, and some pre-upgrade steps will be
>>> required. 
>> Has portmaster been evaluated as an upgrade tool? I'm in a better 
>> position atm to be able to address any deficiencies if that will help 
>> speed this along.
> 
> No, at a minimum I am not comfortable recommending its use until it
> saves old shared libraries across updates (I sent you email about this
> a while ago), which is a vital safety and robustness mechanism.

Ok, no worries then. I have no plans to add that feature at this time, 
partly because there has been no user demand for it, and mostly 
because I don't like the idea. I recognize however that reasonable 
minds may differ on that topic.

Doug

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