Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 07:13:12 +1000 From: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should 9.3 carry a warning about NEW_XORG Message-ID: <20140704211311.GA7680@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> In-Reply-To: <53B69B88.4060803@gmail.com> References: <mailman.57.1404475201.29704.freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> <53B69B88.4060803@gmail.com>
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--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 04 Jul 2014, 14:18 +0200, Piotr Kubaj wrote: > On 07/04/2014 14:00, freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org wrote: > There's not POLA as vt(4) has been merged to stable/9 and stable/10 to > make it possible to use tty. To use new Xorg with tty, recompile kernel > using VT config. Right, it cannot be construed as POLA violation for stable/9 or stable/10; but we're talking about a -RELEASE branch. Is it appropriate for a -RELEASE branch user doing a point release upgrade within a major version to have NEW_XORG build without warning (and not work) following the OS upgrade? The intention of ports r351411 appears to be to make NEW_XORG the default on stable/9 and stable/10 while leaving old XORG the default on the 9 and 10 -RELEASE branches. We have just branched releng/9.3 from stable/9, so it has picked up the "opt out" behaviour from stable - opposite to the "opt in" behaviour of the releng branches. Although the conditional processing happens in the ports infrastructure it impacts user experience of this release FOR USERS OF X. vt(4) is not even mentioned in GENERIC or NOTES but a VT config file is lurking in the release. sc(4) and vga(4) are still in GENERIC and GENERIC states that syscons(4) is the default console driver. I didn't come across anything that warned me that a ports upgrade following the OS upgrade would break X. --=20 John Marshall --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlO3GOcACgkQw/tAaKKahKLYuQCgsXvpbxct4mELpagLGR8z7jL7 Q1sAnRTZHrkndyWphvdu+7hTVZjGwRfu =mUlc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy--
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