Xorg 7.2.0 Release

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat May 19 21:14:17 UTC 2007


Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Joseph Marah wrote:
>> Does anyone know if this is available for FreeBSD as a port?  Thanks.
> 
> I have just received a message on the ports list that xorg 7.2 has been 
> merged into the ports tree:
> 
> "As you may already know, the X11 team has been working hard for the 
> past few months to upgrade X.org ports to 7.2. After a couple of weeks 
> of testing, we've finally committed this upgrade. We also decided to 
> make the PREFIX merge at the same time (moving X11BASE into LOCALBASE), 
> which explains why there are thousands of ports affected by this commit."
> 
> In other words, if you upgrade you need to rebuild most of your system, 
> see UPDATING.
> 
> Cheers, Erik
> 

(sorry for cross-posting, but this is relevant to ports@ too)

Please be aware that the portsnap snapshot hasn't been updated yet to 
include the X.org 7.2 addition, if you use portsnap. I need to try cvsup 
as well to see if the modifications outstanding with the cvsup servers too.

-Garrett


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