HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:00:51AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> Reporting success on one of my desktops. It's a current/i386
> box with a little over 1000 packages (after the upgrade).
> 
> I used portupgrade-devel, but started with stale INDEX. For
> this reason or not, I stumbled upon the libXft quirk. Stopped
> the upgrade when I saw a few pkg_create's to take far too
> long because of dependency loop, rebuilt the INDEX with
> "make index" (portsdb -U didn't work for me), ran pkgdb -F
> and after that portupgrade -a finished without any major
> surprises.

Can you confirm that you started by doing portupgrade -Rf libXft and
it still gave the dependency loop?

> mergebase.sh failed, probably because my system is quite
> dirty. Even after I removed the conflicting files, it just
> failed. I've made the merge myself and been living happily
> ever since (so far).

Hmm, would be nice to know why.

> Waiting for portupgrade -a to finish on my laptop.
> 
> Thanks, Kris and all of you guys for making this step as
> painless as possible - for me and everyone.

Thanks for testing!

Kris