HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

Craig Butler craig001 at lerwick.hopto.org
Thu May 17 22:03:14 UTC 2007


Hi All

Two successful builds and installs, stock GENERIC 6.2-RELEASE, and SMP
6.2-RELEASE-p3

Like others I also had to run 'portupgrade -a' few times.

Cheers

CB


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.  In particular, please pay special attention to
> the instructions on how to record and report information should
> something go wrong: without a transcript of the upgrade session we may
> be unable to determine what went wrong on your system, and your report
> may be wasted.
>
> We're asking all FreeBSD ports committers and other interested
> developers to participate in this process: it's now up to you guys to
> test the upgrade and report problems you encounter, before we unleash
> it on the general user base.
>
> Once we have enough success reports and have dealt with all reported
> failures, we will proceed with the next stage, which is to import into
> CVS.
>
> Kris
>
>   


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