[Call for Testing] X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:27:27 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Gary Jennejohn
> <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de>wrote:
> 
> >
> > Interesting solution.
> >
> > Just for kicks I installed xfce4-session and ran it.  It doesn't require
> > the rest of xfce4 to run.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it worked for me without any error.  It even started the
> > sessions I had saved from the time when I was using xfce4.
> >
> > Have you tried deleteing .xfce4, Torfinn?
> >
> >
> Yep, tried that too. For the user 'root' there wasn't a ~/.config/xfce4
> directory before I started testing.
> 
> 
> > Another point which I should mention is that I did a completely clean
> > install of all my ports when I updated to Xorg 7.5.  This guarantees that
> > there isn't any random junk left around.
> >
> 
> I did portupgrade all ports, and have checked the dates in /var/db/pkg - all
> ports are updated after the installation of Xorg 7.5
>

Well, I completely nuked /usr/local and /var/db/pkg before doing the
installation.  I may be paranoid, but I don't trust the various ports
management tools to do a good job on complex updates.  Just old
fashioned, I guess.

I'm out of ideas.

--
Gary Jennejohn