HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

Rainer Hurling rhurlin at gwdg.de
Thu May 17 17:56:43 UTC 2007


I upgraded from xorg-6.9 to xorg-7.2 on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (amd64) with 
success. Now I can use nv-driver instead of vesa-driver :-)

Like Peter Jeremy I had to execute multiple 'portupgrade -a' commands. 
But two ports did not upgrade at all (math/xgobi and mail/thunderbird).

Rainer


Peter Jeremy schrieb:
> I can report success on three systems.  A further system is still
> upgrading.
> 
> In all cases, I had to execute multiple 'portupgrade -a' commands (and
> a few 'pkgdb -F' commands) to get it to work.  One system mad a couple
> of problems with portupgrade apparently forgetting to re-install
> packages after uninstalling them - which took a bit of cleaning up -
> and losing pieces of packages ('pkg_info -g' reported files missing).
> 
> Overall, I'd rate it as a success, though I don't think it rates as
> totally idiot-proof.
> 
> Thanks to all for your efforts in getting Xorg 7.2 into the tree.
> 


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