HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Fri May 11 03:51:09 UTC 2007


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:28:17PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Dear porters,
>>
>> We are now ready for xorg 7.2 testing!  Over the past week we have
>> done extensive tests of various upgrade scenarios, fixed many
>> remaining bugs, and now the upgrade is looking good.  Of course, we
>> can't possibly test everything, so that's where you come in.  What we
>> need now is for everyone to download this tarball:
>>
>>   http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/ports-xorg-7.2.tbz
>>
>> Extract it into a clean directory (i.e. not over the top of your
>> existing ports tree), then follow the directions in UPDATING to begin
>> the upgrade process.
> 
> Amendment to the instructions: XORG_UPGRADE must be set before the
> portupgrade -Rf libXft.
> 
> Kris

Well, bottoms up to the upgrade. Lessee how the experience is..

Many thanks to all of the maintainers for finally getting this out. It's 
been a while since FreeBSD's been up to date in terms of its X11 
distribution :).

-Garrett


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