HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 12 21:11:16 UTC 2007


On 5/13/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 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?

Nope, I actually misread UPDATING and thought portupgrade-devel
didn't need it. [ try s/nor/not/ in the message :) ]

> > 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.

I'll try to look closer at it on my laptop. Something tells
me it'll fail there too, because it's my development system
and it's as dirty as it gets.


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