HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

[Garrett Cooper]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The closest I can find to any details on this is your posting of
>>> 17 May 2007 12:05:07 -0700 where you post an extract of gtk20
>>> failing to configure.  Did you follow the instructions that you
>>> copied into that posting?
>>
>> last thing i tried was:
>>
>> #pkg_deinstall -f pango
>> #cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango
>> #make install clean
>> #pkgdb -F; shutdown -h now
>>
>> [went to  bed]
>>
>> i have a note to
>>
>> #portsnap fetch update
>>
>> i am thinking of shutting out my _sole_ terminal running pine
>> right now and following that instruction after i ctl-D my mailserver
>> login back to my machine.
>>
>> i remember trying to follow the instructions in an error message
>> having to do with "deinstall (ferget)" and "reinstall (whateveritwas)"
>>
>> now i am reading posts about doing repettive portupgrade -a  ..
>>
>> i am sorry for having a "low comfort level."  i want to improve.
>> its hard for me right now only having the ability to have one unix
>> command line window open and no printer. if my X was up it would be
>> easier.
> 
> gtk20 is causing me fits, but that's just the symptom. The cause is that 
> the pkg database(s) are fubared and the ruby utils are doing a bad job 
> at guessing where x11-toolkit/gtk20 is (even though the location hasn't 
> changed >_>).
> 
> -Garrett

BSD.local.dist still isn't available yet btw via portsnap (cause of 
failure with gtk20). It is available however via c(v)sup.

-Garrett