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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